Re: Kernel bug in 5.7 for PPC32 on PowerBook G4 - bisected to commit 697ece7

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Sat May 23 2020 - 13:30:30 EST


Hi Larry,

Le 23/05/2020 Ã 19:24, Larry Finger a ÃcritÂ:
Hi Christophe,

Although kernel 5.7.0-rc2 appeared to boot cleanly, it failed on my G4 when I tried to generate a new kernel. The following BUG message is logged:


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This problem was bisected to commit 697ece7 ("powerpc/32s: reorder Linux PTE bits to better match Hash PTE bits").

Being reversed in new -rc , see https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/87sgfsf4hs.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/


If I had done more rigorous tests earlier, I would have found the bug with more time to fix it before release of 5.7, but every other problem I have found happened at boot, not when the machine had to swap.

Thanks,

Larry

Christophe