Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-03 Thread Anton Blanchard
Hi, > Yes. With that patch applied, things work for me again. Thanks Alex, Nish. We can reproduce this on one of our Biminis, looking into it now. Anton ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linu

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2012-10-02 at 14:43 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > Started looking into this. If your suspicion were accurate, wouldn't > the > bisection have stopped at 0e4bc95d87394364f408627067238453830bdbf3 > ("powerpc/iommu: Reduce spinlock coverage in iommu_alloc and > iommu_free")? > > Alex

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 03.10.2012, at 00:17, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > On 02.10.2012 [23:47:39 +0200], Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 02.10.2012, at 23:43, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: >> >>> Hi Ben, >>> >>> On 02.10.2012 [10:58:29 +1000], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:03 +0200, Ale

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-02 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
On 02.10.2012 [23:47:39 +0200], Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 02.10.2012, at 23:43, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > > > Hi Ben, > > > > On 02.10.2012 [10:58:29 +1000], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > >> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:03 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >>> Phew. Here we go :). It looks to b

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-02 Thread Alexander Graf
On 02.10.2012, at 23:43, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote: > Hi Ben, > > On 02.10.2012 [10:58:29 +1000], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:03 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> Phew. Here we go :). It looks to be more of a PPC specific problem >>> than it appeared as at first: >>

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-02 Thread Nishanth Aravamudan
Hi Ben, On 02.10.2012 [10:58:29 +1000], Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:03 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > Phew. Here we go :). It looks to be more of a PPC specific problem > > than it appeared as at first: > > Ok, so I suspect the problem is the pushing down of the loc

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-01 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2012-10-01 at 16:03 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > Phew. Here we go :). It looks to be more of a PPC specific problem than it > appeared as at first: Ok, so I suspect the problem is the pushing down of the locks which breaks with iommu backends that have a separate flush callback. In that

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-01 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 04:03:06PM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 28.09.2012, at 17:10, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:19:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> > >> On 28.09.2012, at 04:04, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Alexande

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-10-01 Thread Alexander Graf
On 28.09.2012, at 17:10, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:19:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 28.09.2012, at 04:04, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: Below are OOPS excerpts from different rc's I tried. A

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-09-28 Thread Alexander Graf
On 28.09.2012, at 17:10, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:19:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 28.09.2012, at 04:04, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: Below are OOPS excerpts from different rc's I tried. A

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-09-28 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 04:19:55AM +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 28.09.2012, at 04:04, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > >> > >> Below are OOPS excerpts from different rc's I tried. All of them crashed - > >> all the way up to current Li

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-09-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On 28.09.2012, at 04:04, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> Below are OOPS excerpts from different rc's I tried. All of them crashed - >> all the way up to current Linus' master branch. I haven't cross-checked, but >> I don't remember any such

Re: [REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-09-27 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 6:55 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > Below are OOPS excerpts from different rc's I tried. All of them crashed - > all the way up to current Linus' master branch. I haven't cross-checked, but > I don't remember any such behavior from pre-3.6 releases. Since you seem to be a

[REGRESSION] nfsd crashing with 3.6.0-rc7 on PowerPC

2012-09-27 Thread Alexander Graf
Howdy, While running 3.6.0-rcX I am having a few issues with nfsd on my PPC970 based system. For some reason every time I actually end up accessing an NFS share on it, it crashes away at random points. It looks a lot like corrupted pointers in all logs. I also can't reproduce the oopses without