Re: next/master boot bisection: next-20190215 on beaglebone-black

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Apr 11 2019 - 13:35:27 EST


On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:42 AM Guenter Roeck <groeck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:19 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 7:43 AM Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I went ahead and acquired one of these boards to see if I can can
> > > debug this locally.
> >
> > Hi! Any progress on this? Might it be possible to unblock this series
> > for v5.2 by adding a temporary "not on ARM" flag?
> >
>
> Can someone send me a pointer to the series in question ? I would like
> to run it through my testbed.

It's already in -mm and linux-next (",mm: shuffle initial free memory
to improve memory-side-cache utilization") but it gets enabled with
CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y (which was made the default briefly in
-mm which triggered problems on ARM as was reverted).

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Kees Cook