On 13-06-17 11:30 PM, Khem Raj wrote:
Hi Bruce and All
Finally after a long innings I have diagnosed the mystery behind the below
segfault that we see on kernel 3.8 which compiled with gcc 4.8 but don't show
when compiled with gcc 4.7
There also seems to be a follow up patch:
commit 418df63adac56841ef6b0f1fcf435bc64d4ed177
Author: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org>
Date: Tue Mar 12 13:00:42 2013 +0100
ARM: 7670/1: fix the memset fix
Commit 455bd4c430b0 ("ARM: 7668/1: fix memset-related crashes caused by
recent GCC (4.7.2) optimizations") attempted to fix a compliance issue
with the memset return value. However the memset itself became broken
by that patch for misaligned pointers.
This fixes the above by branching over the entry code from the
misaligned fixup code to avoid reloading the original pointer.
Also, because the function entry alignment is wrong in the Thumb mode
compilation, that fixup code is moved to the end.
While at it, the entry instructions are slightly reworked to help dual
issue pipelines.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Alexander Holler <hol...@ahsoftware.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+ker...@arm.linux.org.uk>
:100644 100644 d912e73... 94b0650... M arch/arm/lib/memset.S
--------
I've staged it as well, and will do a boot test in the morning once
my build has completed. Time to call it a night here.
Bruce
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff
pgd = c0004000
[ffffffff] *pgd=07ffe831, *pte=00000000, *ppte=00000000
Internal error: Oops: 17 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 Not tainted (3.8.0-yocto-standard+ #32)
PC is at kmem_cache_alloc+0x38/0x154
LR is at subsys_system_register+0x34/0xd8
pc : [<c00bd4d8>] lr : [<c0327244>] psr: a0000153
sp : c7835ef0 ip : c7904590 fp : 00000000
r10: c0688dc4 r9 : c06db900 r8 : c0327244
r7 : 00000000 r6 : 000080d0 r5 : c7801380 r4 : ffffffff
r3 : 00000000 r2 : 00000078 r1 : 000080d0 r0 : c7801380
Flags: NzCv IRQs on FIQs off Mode SVC_32 ISA ARM Segment kernel
Control: 00093177 Table: 00004000 DAC: 00000017
Process swapper (pid: 1, stack limit = 0xc78341b8)
Stack: (0xc7835ef0 to 0xc7836000)
5ee0: c06a5564 c06b8b8c c7834028 00000000
5f00: c0680218 c0327244 c7835f28 c06a5564 00000006 c7834028 c06db900 c0688dd4
5f20: c7835f28 c00089a0 c0657f44 00000006 c086e561 00000006 00000000 c06a5534
5f40: c06a5564 00000006 c06db900 c0680218 c069fd68 0000008e c069fd5c c0680924
5f60: 00000006 00000006 c0680218 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
5f80: c04f5e68 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c04f5e70
5fa0: 00000000 00000000 c04f5e68 c000deb0 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
5fc0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
5fe0: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000013 00000000 00000000 00000000
[<c00bd4d8>] (kmem_cache_alloc+0x38/0x154) from [<c0327244>]
(subsys_system_register+0x34/0xd8)
[<c0327244>] (subsys_system_register+0x34/0xd8) from [<c0688dd4>]
(init_clocksource_sysfs+0x10/0x54)
[<c0688dd4>] (init_clocksource_sysfs+0x10/0x54) from [<c00089a0>]
(do_one_initcall+0x10c/0x17c)
[<c00089a0>] (do_one_initcall+0x10c/0x17c) from [<c0680924>]
(kernel_init_freeable+0x164/0x224)
[<c0680924>] (kernel_init_freeable+0x164/0x224) from [<c04f5e70>]
(kernel_init+0x8/0x150)
[<c04f5e70>] (kernel_init+0x8/0x150) from [<c000deb0>] (ret_from_fork+0x14/0x24)
Code: e5934000 e3540000 0a00001a e5953014 (e7941003)
---[ end trace f4d187650e17fc5c ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b
Please apply the patch below to linux-yocto-3.8
http://sakrah.dontexist.org/files/patches/0001-ARM-7668-1-fix-memset-related-crashes-caused-by-rece.patch
This is a back port from 3.9 therefore safe. The problem is not limited to
linux-yocto it also impacts upstream 3.8 stable
but 3.8 stable is end of life so why bother. If linux-yocto upgrades to 3.9 or
3.10 and drops 3.8 in 1.5 then we are ok too.
Let me know how it goes
Thanks
-Khem
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