Oops in trace_hardirqs_on (powerpc)

Jörg Sommer joerg at alea.gnuu.de
Mon Dec 20 00:27:05 EST 2010


Hi Steven,

Steven Rostedt hat am Mon 27. Sep, 21:58 (-0400) geschrieben:
> On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 14:50 +0200, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> > Hello Steven,
> > 
> > Steven Rostedt hat am Wed 22. Sep, 15:44 (-0400) geschrieben:
> > > Sorry for the late reply, but I was on vacation when you sent this, and
> > > I missed it while going through email.
> > > 
> > > Do you still have this issue?
> > 
> > No. I've rebuild my kernel without TRACE_IRQFLAGS and the problem
> > vanished, as expected. The problem is, that in some cases the stack is
> > only two frames deep, which causes the macro CALLER_ADDR1 makes an
> > invalid access. Someone told me, there a workaround for the problem on
> > i386, too.
> > 
> > % sed -n 2p arch/x86/lib/thunk_32.S
> >  * Trampoline to trace irqs off. (otherwise CALLER_ADDR1 might crash)
> 
> Yes, I remember that problem. When I get back from Tokyo, I'll tried to
> remember to fix it.

Did you've fixed this problem? The bug report is still marked as open.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16573

Regards, Jörg.
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