Re: unaligned accesses in SLAB etc.

From: Meelis Roos
Date: Thu Oct 16 2014 - 16:16:50 EST


> > scripts/Makefile.build:352: recipe for target 'sound/modules.order' failed
> > make[1]: *** [sound/modules.order] Bus error
> > make[1]: *** Deleting file 'sound/modules.order'
> > Makefile:929: recipe for target 'sound' failed
>
> I just reproduced this on my Sun Blade 2500, so it can trigger on UltraSPARC-IIIi
> systems too.

My bisection led to the folloowing commit but it seems irrelevant (I
have no sun4v on these machines):

4ccb9272892c33ef1c19a783cfa87103b30c2784 is the first bad commit
commit 4ccb9272892c33ef1c19a783cfa87103b30c2784
Author: bob picco <bpicco@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Sep 16 09:26:47 2014 -0400

sparc64: sun4v TLB error power off events


However, the following chunk sound slightly suspicious:

+ if (fault_code & FAULT_CODE_BAD_RA)
+ goto do_sigbus;
+

because SIGNUS is what I got. For some machines, it killed chekroot
during startup, for some shells under some circumstances, for some sshd.

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Meelis Roos (mroos@xxxxxxxx)
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