From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux-sh list <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Possible regression in next-20150120 due to "mm: account pmd page tables to the process"
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 10:37:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWyXaxobndjYDwYwqE=XJCBH_7C9TFBZYr7UpYk-rUa4A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150121092956.4CF89A8@black.fi.intel.com>
Hi Kirill, Simon,
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov
<kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Simon Horman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have observed what appears to be a regression caused
>> by b316feb3c37ff19cd ("mm: account pmd page tables to the process").
>>
>> The problem that I am seeing is that when booting the kzm9g board, which is
>> based on the Renesas r8a73a4 ARM SoC, using its defconfig the following the
Renesas sh73a0 ARM SoC, FWIW...
>> tail boot log below is output repeatedly and the boot does not appear to
>> proceed any further.
>>
>> I have observed this problem using next-20150120 and observed
>> that it does not occur when the patch mentioned above is reverted.
>>
>> I have also observed what appears to be the same problem when
>> booting the following boards using their defconfigs. And perhaps
>> more to the point the problem appears to affect booting all
>> boards based on Renesas ARM SoCs for which there is working support
>> to boot them by initialising them using C (as opposed to device tree).
>>
>> * armadillo800eva, based on the r8a7740 SoC
>> * mackerel, based on the sh7372
>
> This should be fixed by this:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-next&m=142176280218627&w=2
>
> Please, test.
Thanks!
Confirmed the issue, and confirmed the fix (on sh73a0/kzm9g-legacy).
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-21 9:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-21 2:30 Simon Horman
2015-01-21 9:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-01-21 9:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2015-01-22 3:33 ` Simon Horman
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