Re: crashes in 4.10 because of "parisc: Enable KASLR"

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On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Helge Deller wrote:

> Hi Mikulas,
> 
> On 01.02.2017 18:37, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > I had some crashes on parisc with the kernel 4.10 and I tracked them to 
> > the patch 18d98a79382cbe5a7569788d5b7b18e7015506f2 "parisc: Enable KASLR".
> 
> If the patch is really guilty, then it's probably best to revert it
> before 4.10 gets released, but...
> 
> > The crashes can be reproduced by compiling kernel in a loop - a crash 
> > happens in a few hours. I have a C8000 workstation with two dual-core 
> > PA8900 CPUs.
> > 
> > The kernel 4.9 is stable, 4.9 with the patch 18d98a79 isn't.
> 
> I'm not 100% convinced that 4.9 is fully stable and that the patch
> is the reason for the crashes you see.
> What kind of crashes do you see? Userspace or kernel ?

Userspace crashes. Random crashes or internal errors in gcc when compiling 
the kernel. I once had "aptitude" crash.

> I know we still face random userspace crashes which happen with plain kernel 4.9/stable too.
> Dave is still trying various patches to resolve those crashes.

Is 4.8 stable for you?

> Helge

Mikulas
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