On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:27:49AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
I reproduced what jwb reported on the powerstation.
Mine is with F10 + updates userland, only the kernel seems to matter.
The test case is:
# modprobe iscsi_tcp
Illegal Instruction
#
On -16[278], same oops that jwb saw, wrong text appearing at a page boundary.
This kernel:
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_1396640/kernel-vani...
does not exhibit the problem. That should be all the same buildroot stuff,
and 2.6.29.4 with no extra patches.
OTOH, this kernel:
http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/scratch/roland/task_1396192/kernel-2.6....
also does not exibit the problem. That is normal -167 with all the same
patches, but built in dist-f10-updates-candidate buildroots.
But contrary to jwb's reports:
On my powerstation 2.6.29.3-159.fc11.ppc64 fails to boot:
That's not contrary. We were testing on different machines. I was testing on
a Apple PowerMac7,2 (dual ppc970 G5) which uses sata_swv for storage, not ipr.
This is obviously a variant of the same problem.
Right.
It's losing on clobbered instructions at a page boundary.
Yes, seems so.
Man but these bastards boot slow.
I've noticed that about the powerstation, yes. The G5 boots surprisingly
quick with F11. Go figure.
Oh, and note the two variant crashes in different kernels are in
different
routines in different builds, but always at PC 0xc000000000400000,
and always clobbered the next few words with:
00001010 00000008 00001013 0000000f
The magic PAGE_OFFSET+4MB effect. So, youse gots to wonder, and...
On 2.6.29.3-142.fc11.ppc64, which has "no problem", I built the appended
module.
It printed this:
Instruction dump:
e8090000 f8410028 7f83e378 e9690010 7fa5eb78 7c0903a6 e8490008 4e800421
<00001010> 00000008 00001013 0000000f 7961626f 6f740000 00101600 00000c00
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ <-- spells "yaboot"
00000400 00101100 00000800 7fa3eb78 4bfff24d 60000000 38600000 383f00b0
^^^^^^^^ <-- goes to correct text again from here
The magic 44 bytes of bogon at PAGE_OFFSET+4MB effect.
We have no idea how long we have been screwed.
I updated to yaboot-1.3.14-12.fc11.ppc (was f10), ran ybin, no help.
ybin isn't needed on the powerstation iirc. Anyway, that is indeed odd.
We should have Tony take a look at this if possible. Or if David can remeber
how to do a netboot directly from OF (and skipping yaboot), that would be a
good test too.
josh