Bug#707175: linux-image-3.2.0-4-powerpc64: kernel BUG at /build/buildd-linux_3.2.41-2-powerpc-TjfGhD/linux-3.2.41/fs/dcache.c:474
Thanks for the update.
I have been looking for the powerpc64 version of the 3.8 kernel to try, but it doesn’t seem to be available as a Debian package yet.
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Rob Leslie
rob@mars.org
On May 8, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 03:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>>
>> On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 15:16 -0700, Rob Leslie wrote:
>>> Package: src:linux
>>> Version: 3.2.41-2
>>> Severity: important
>>>
>>> Attempting to interrupt an SPU-using process results in the following kernel
>>> bug:
>>>
>>> [ 482.153589] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>> [ 482.154820] kernel BUG at /build/buildd-linux_3.2.41-2-powerpc-TjfGhD/linux-3.2.41/fs/dcache.c:474!
>>> [ 482.157284] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2]
>>> [ 482.158555] SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PS3
>>> [ 482.159765] Modules linked in: sha1_generic hmac cts rfcomm bnep autofs4 binfmt_misc fuse rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsd nfs nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd fscache sunrpc spufs sha256_generic aes_generic cbc dm_snapshot dm_crypt btusb bluetooth rfkill snd_ps3 snd_pcm crc16 snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc ps3flash ps3_lpm rtc_ps3 ext3 mbcache jbd btrfs crc32c libcrc32c dm_mod sg sr_mod cdrom ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore ps3_gelic usb_common ps3rom ps3disk ps3stor_lib ps3vram [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
>>> [ 482.160052] NIP: c000000000180a74 LR: c000000000180a64 CTR: c0000000000ec1c8
>>> [ 482.160071] REGS: c000000004cd70a0 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G D (3.2.0-4-powerpc64 Debian 3.2.41-2)
>> [...]
>>
>> The letter D here indicates there was an earlier BUG. Look further up
>> the log to find the first one.
>>
>> Does Linux 3.8 (in experimental, should be in unstable shortly) work any
>> better?
>
> It looks like the empty /spu was just fixed by:
>
> commit 6747e83235caecd30b186d1282e4eba7679f81b7
> Author: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
> Date: Tue Apr 23 15:13:14 2013 +0000
>
> powerpc/spufs: Initialise inode->i_ino in spufs_new_inode()
>
> which went into Linux 3.8.12 and should be in the next version in Debian
> unstable. It will take a bit longer to get into a 3.2.y update.
>
> I don't know whether this change will also fix the crash.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
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