Issues with the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1

[Christophe Leroy]

Le 13/10/2022 à 09:03, Christian Zigotzky a écrit :
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Does this patch also affect 64-bit kernels?
> 
> We use often 32-bit userlands with 64-bit kernels.

As far as I understand, it was already correct for 32-bit userlands with 
64 bit kernels, aka compat.

The patch applies the same approach for 32 bit kernels, as explained in 
the commit message : "Fix this by having 32-bit kernels share those 
syscall definitions with compat."

Christophe

> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
>> On 12. Oct 2022, at 09:56, Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2022-10-12 at 08:51 +0200, Christian Zigotzky wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I use the Nemo board with a PASemi PA6T CPU and have some issues
>>> since the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1.
>>>
>>> I successfully compiled the git kernel with the first PowerPC updates
>>> two days ago.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately this kernel is really dangerous. Many things for
>>> example Network Manager and LightDM don't work anymore and produced
>>> several gigabyte of config files till the partition has been filled.
>>>
>>> I deleted some files like the resolv.conf that had a size over 200
>>> GB!
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, MintPPC was still damaged. For example LightDM doesn't
>>> work anymore and the MATE desktop doesn't display any icons anymore
>>> because Caja wasn't able to reserve memory anymore.
>>>
>>> In this case, bisecting isn't an option and I have to wait some
>>> weeks. It is really difficult to find the issue if the userland will
>>> damaged again and again.
>>
>> Could you try with
>> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/patch/20221012035335.866440-1-npiggin@gmail.com/
>> to see if your issues are related to that?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> -- 
>> Andrew Donnellan    OzLabs, ADL Canberra
>> ajd at linux.ibm.com   IBM Australia Limited
>>
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