Thanks for the update. I have been looking for the powerpc64 version of the 3.8 kernel to try, but it doesn’t seem to be available as a Debian package yet.
-- Rob Leslie r...@mars.org On May 8, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 03:17 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> Control: tag -1 moreinfo >> >> On Tue, 2013-05-07 at 15:16 -0700, Rob Leslie wrote: >>> Package: src:linux >>> Version: 3.2.41-2 >>> Severity: important >>> >>> Attempting to interrupt an SPU-using process results in the following kernel >>> bug: >>> >>> [ 482.153589] ------------[ cut here ]------------ >>> [ 482.154820] kernel BUG at >>> /build/buildd-linux_3.2.41-2-powerpc-TjfGhD/linux-3.2.41/fs/dcache.c:474! >>> [ 482.157284] Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2] >>> [ 482.158555] SMP NR_CPUS=32 NUMA PS3 >>> [ 482.159765] Modules linked in: sha1_generic hmac cts rfcomm bnep autofs4 >>> binfmt_misc fuse rpcsec_gss_krb5 nfsd nfs nfs_acl auth_rpcgss lockd fscache >>> sunrpc spufs sha256_generic aes_generic cbc dm_snapshot dm_crypt btusb >>> bluetooth rfkill snd_ps3 snd_pcm crc16 snd_timer snd soundcore >>> snd_page_alloc ps3flash ps3_lpm rtc_ps3 ext3 mbcache jbd btrfs crc32c >>> libcrc32c dm_mod sg sr_mod cdrom ohci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore ps3_gelic >>> usb_common ps3rom ps3disk ps3stor_lib ps3vram [last unloaded: >>> scsi_wait_scan] >>> [ 482.160052] NIP: c000000000180a74 LR: c000000000180a64 CTR: >>> c0000000000ec1c8 >>> [ 482.160071] REGS: c000000004cd70a0 TRAP: 0700 Tainted: G D >>> (3.2.0-4-powerpc64 Debian 3.2.41-2) >> [...] >> >> The letter D here indicates there was an earlier BUG. Look further up >> the log to find the first one. >> >> Does Linux 3.8 (in experimental, should be in unstable shortly) work any >> better? > > It looks like the empty /spu was just fixed by: > > commit 6747e83235caecd30b186d1282e4eba7679f81b7 > Author: Michael Ellerman <mich...@ellerman.id.au> > Date: Tue Apr 23 15:13:14 2013 +0000 > > powerpc/spufs: Initialise inode->i_ino in spufs_new_inode() > > which went into Linux 3.8.12 and should be in the next version in Debian > unstable. It will take a bit longer to get into a 3.2.y update. > > I don't know whether this change will also fix the crash. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - Harrison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
