On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:04:32PM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > Hello PA hackers, > > I've tried various -rc candidates in the last few weeks, and sadly the > parisc kernel is in pretty bad shape. > > At the beginning I started to get problems only when I had USB > keyboard/mouse attached to the PA machine. This lead to bugzilla > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11913 I don't have any USB devices attached (serial console) on j6000. Also getting occasional: Backtrace: with no other output when a process (usually hppa64-gcc) segfaults "randomly". This is with kernel builds. > Now, with -rc4 and -rc5 things got even worse. I've tried both -rc3 and -rc5. I'm going to try 2.6.27.7 as well. > Crashes happen often just directly at the beginning. > I'm sure it's not USB related any more, and I assume we have some strange > mm-problem somewhere. I'm inclined to agree though it's just a guess. > The kernel crashes at various places, and mostly a null-pointer is > involved. I haven't crashed the kernel per se, just getting segfaults reminiscent of when we still had issues with mm not playing well with VIVT caches. > Right now I'm clueless... Sorry, I'm not better. :( All I can do is try to work backwards a bit...but we've been in pretty bad shape with various types of breakage since 2.6.22 about. grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
