On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 03:44:59PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After merging the tip tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> pseries_le_defconfig) failed to boot like this:
>
> Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 32736
> Policy zone: Normal
> mem auto-init: stack:all(zero), heap alloc:off, heap free:off
> Memory: 2027392K/2097152K available (17984K kernel code, 3328K rwdata, 14784K rodata, 6080K init, 1671K bss, 69760K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
>
> *crickets*
>
> Bisected to commit
>
> f4ab23558310 ("slub: Replace cmpxchg_double()")
>
> I have reverted that commit (and the following one) for today.
Sorry about that; turns out I forgot to test the case where cmpxchg128
wasn't available.
Please see:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230524093246.GP83892@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As stated there, I'm going to zap tip/locking/core for a few days and
let this fixed version run through the robots again before re-instating
it.
