Re: [PATCH] resource, kunit: add dependency on SPARSEMEM

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Mon Sep 23 2024 - 09:47:22 EST


Hi Günter,

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 3:39 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interesting that you get that to boot. The q800 machine crashes for me
> when trying to boot it in qemu with the latest upstream kernel, in function
> __pte_offset_map_lock(). It bisects to commit 394290cba966 ("mm: turn
> USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS / USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS into Kconfig options").
> Reverting that patch fixes the crash for me. I guess you are not seeing that ?

I never used qemu -M q800.
I have just verified that -M virt boots fine?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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