3.2.0-rc1 panic on PowerPC

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2011.11.21 at 12:25 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 17:17 -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> > On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 at 11:58, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > I've seen something similar with 3.2-rc2 at cfcfc9ec, unfortunately I
> > > couldn't capture the oops log at the time.
> > 
> > It just happened again today, after heavy CPU & IO load (rsyncing from/to 
> > external disks on dm-crypt). This time the oops was printed on the screen 
> > but nothing on netconsole:
> > 
> > http://nerdbynature.de/bits/3.2.0-rc1/oops/oops3m.JPG
> > 
> > It looks like the oops I reported earlier (oops2m.JPG) so I doubt it's a 
> > random corruption due to hardware issues...?
> 
> Yeah it's starting to look like a pattern. Your latest oops looks a lot
> like the one I had (though it was with tg3 on the g5), ie, vfs_read ->
> driver -> allocator -> crash.

I might be seeing a similar issue on x86_64. See:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mm/70254

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Markus