Issues with the first PowerPC updates for the kernel 6.1

[Christian Zigotzky]

Edit: fixed typos.

> On 13. Oct 2022, at 11:42, Christian Zigotzky <chzigotzky at xenosoft.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> Thanks a lot for your answer. OK, now, I know, that I don’t need to test it. After the boot of the latest git kernel, my system was extremely damaged. Some config files have a size of several gigabytes for example the resolv.conf. I tried to repair this Debian system but without any success.
> I copied with dd and Netcat via network another rootfs from another computer to the damaged partition.
> I don’t have the time to do it always again and again after a bad bisect result.
> I will wait some weeks and try it again.
> 
> Cheers,
> Christian
> 
>> On 13. Oct 2022, at 09:28, Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> 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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