On Sun, 21 Feb 2021 10:21:56 +0100 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Sergei! > > On 2/21/21 1:25 AM, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > > In https://bugs.gentoo.org/769614 Dmitry noticed that > > `ptrace(PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO)` does not return error sign properly. > > (...) > > Do these two patches unbreak gdb on ia64? gdb was somewhat working on ia64 for Gentoo. strace was the main impacted here. But I did not try anything complicated recently. Anything specific that breaks for you? $ uname -r 5.10.0 (even without the patches above) $ cat c.c int main(){} $ gcc c.c -o a -ggdb3 $ gdb --quiet ./a Reading symbols from ./a... (gdb) start Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x7f2: file c.c, line 1. Starting program: /home/slyfox/a Failed to read a valid object file image from memory. Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at c.c:1 1 int main(){} (gdb) disassemble Dump of assembler code for function main: 0x20000008000007f0 <+0>: [MII] mov r2=r12 0x20000008000007f1 <+1>: mov r14=r0;; => 0x20000008000007f2 <+2>: mov r8=r14 0x2000000800000800 <+16>: [MIB] mov r12=r2 0x2000000800000801 <+17>: nop.i 0x0 0x2000000800000802 <+18>: br.ret.sptk.many b0;; End of assembler dump. (gdb) break *0x2000000800000800 Breakpoint 2 at 0x2000000800000800: file c.c, line 1. (gdb) continue Continuing. Breakpoint 2, 0x2000000800000800 in main () at c.c:1 1 int main(){} Looks ok for minor stuff. > And have you, by any chance, managed to get the hpsa driver working again? v5.10 seems to boot off hpsa just fine without extra patches: 14:01.0 RAID bus controller: Hewlett-Packard Company Smart Array P600 Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company 3 Gb/s SAS RAID Kernel driver in use: hpsa v5.11 does not boot yet. Kernel does not see some files while boots after init is started (but I'm not sure it's a block device problem). Bisecting now why. -- Sergei