If the bug still exists with the latest mainline kernel, we can perform a bisect to identify the fix that introduced this. However, if the mainline kernel resolves this bug, we can perform a "Reverse" bisect to identify the commit that fixes this.
** Tags added: performing-bisect -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1304754 Title: gccgo compiled binaries are killed by SEGV on 64k ppc64el kernels Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On kernels 3.13-18 and 3.13-23 (there may be others) the kernel is killing gccgo compiled binaries [18519.444748] jujud[19277]: bad frame in setup_rt_frame: 0000000000000000 nip 0000000000000000 lr 0000000000000000 [18519.673632] init: juju-agent-ubuntu-local main process (19220) killed by SEGV signal [18519.673651] init: juju-agent-ubuntu-local main process ended, respawning In powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c: sys_rt_sigreturn is jumping to the badframe: label and executing an unconditional force_sigsegv which is delivered to the userland process. Like C++, gccgo tries to decode SIGSEGV as a nil pointer access and blame some random function that happened to be the top stack frame. Reverting to the 3.13-08 kernel appears to resolve the issue which (weakly) points the finger at the recent switch to 64k pages. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1304754/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp