Linux-next POWER9 NULL pointer NIP since 1st Apr.

[Qian Cai]

> On Apr 10, 2020, at 3:20 PM, Qian Cai <cai at lca.pw> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 9, 2020, at 10:14 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:
>> 
>> On Thu, 9 Apr 2020 06:06:35 -0400
>> Qian Cai <cai at lca.pw> wrote:
>> 
>>>>> I’ll go to bisect some more but it is going to take a while.
>>>>> 
>>>>> $ git log --oneline 4c205c84e249..8e99cf91b99b
>>>>> 8e99cf91b99b tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic
>>>>> 2ab2a0924b99 tracing: Add documentation on set_ftrace_notrace_pid and set_event_notrace_pid
>>>>> ebed9628f5c2 selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_event_notrace_pid file
>>>>> ed8839e072b8 selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_ftrace_notrace_pid file
>>>>> 276836260301 tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks  
>>>> 
>>>>> b3b1e6ededa4 ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
>>>>> 717e3f5ebc82 ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact  
>>>> 
>>>> If it is affecting function tracing, it is probably one of the above two
>>>> commits.  
>>> 
>>> OK, it was narrowed down to one of those messed with mcount here,
>> 
>> Thing is, nothing here touches mcount.
> 
> Yes, you are right. I went back to test the commit just before the 5.7-trace merge request,
> I did reproduce there. The thing is that this bastard could take more 6-hour to happen,
> so my previous attempt did not wait long enough. Back to the square one…

OK, I starts to test all commits up to 12 hours. The progess on far is,

BAD: v5.6-rc1
GOOD: v5.5
GOOD: 153b5c566d30 Merge tag 'microblaze-v5.6-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze

The next step I’ll be testing,

71c3a888cbca Merge tag 'powerpc-5.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

IF that is BAD, the merge request is the culprit. I can see a few commits are more related that others.

5290ae2b8e5f powerpc/64: Use {SAVE,REST}_NVGPRS macros
ed0bc98f8cbe powerpc/64s: Reimplement power4_idle code in C

Does it ring any bell yet?