On 10/28/2014 01:19 PM, Markos Chandras wrote: > On 10/28/2014 01:01 PM, Joonsoo Kim wrote: >> 2014-10-28 19:45 GMT+09:00 Markos Chandras <Markos.Chandras@xxxxxxxxxx>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> It seems I am unable to boot my Malta with EVA. The problem appeared in >>> the 3.18 merge window. I bisected the problem (between v3.17 and >>> v3.18-rc1) and I found the following commit responsible for the broken boot. >> >> Hello, >> >> Did you start to bisect from v3.18-rc1? >> I'd like to be sure that this is another bug which is fixed by following commit. >> >> commit 85c9f4b04a08f6bc770b77530c22d04103468b8f >> Author: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> >> Date: Mon Oct 13 15:51:01 2014 -0700 >> >> mm/slab: fix unaligned access on sparc64 >> >> This fix is merged into v3.18-rc1 sometime later that >> 'support slab merge' is merged. >> >> Thanks. >> > Hi, > > I bisected from v3.17 until 3.18-rc1. But 3.18-rc2 and the latest > mainline (f7e87a44ef60ad379e39b45437604141453bf0ec) still have the same > problem > > btw i did more tests and this is not EVA specific. A maltaup_defconfig > fails in the same way. I suspect all malta*_defconfigs will fail in a > similar way which makes it probably easier for you to reproduce it on a > QEMU. > sorry maltaup_defconfig does not fail. maltasmvp_defconfig does. So it might be a similar problem like the one fixed in 85c9f4b04a08f6bc770b77530c22d04103468b8f -- markos