Random crashes with 2.6.27-rc3 on PPC

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 16:46 +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Michael Buesch <mb at bu3sch.de> writes:
> 
> > The following workaround seems to fix the crashes on powerpc.
> > However, this patch is clearly not what we want for other architectures,
> > as they might need -fno-omit-frame-pointer to function properly.
> 
> This has a better chance to be accepted. :-)

Unfortunately, that won't solve the FTRACE problem.

Ben.

> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 8b5a7d3..f9a2e48 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ config LOCKDEP
>  	bool
>  	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
>  	select STACKTRACE
> -	select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
> +	select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
>  	select KALLSYMS
>  	select KALLSYMS_ALL
>  
> 
> > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/Makefile
> > ===================================================================
> > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/Makefile	2008-08-24 11:50:23.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/Makefile	2008-08-24 12:15:54.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o
> >  ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y)
> >  # According to Alan Modra <alan at linuxcare.com.au>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is
> >  # needed for x86 only.  Why this used to be enabled for all architectures is beyond
> >  # me.  I suspect most platforms don't need this, but until we know that for sure
> >  # I turn this off for IA-64 only.  Andreas Schwab says it's also needed on m68k
> >  # to get a correct value for the wait-channel (WCHAN in ps). --davidm
> > -CFLAGS_sched.o := $(PROFILING) -fno-omit-frame-pointer
> > +CFLAGS_sched.o := $(PROFILING)
> 
> CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER is already enabled on powerpc.
> 
> Andreas.
>