Control: reassign -1 src:linux On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 11:39:03AM +0100, Helge Deller wrote: > On 11/21/23 23:38, Zebediah Beck wrote: > > Excellent, please explain the bug in question in further detail as this is > > interesting > > There is not much to say about it. > The main challenge on parisc is, that it's the only platform left where > the stack grows upwards. So, the kernel has special handling when allocating > space for the (big) environment. Since both stack and heap grow upward, it's > not easy to find a suitable place where to put a large environment. > But, I don't think this is the specific problem here. > > The real problem is probably that there were many patches not in 6.3 > (but partly added at later stages in -stable series), e.g.: > - > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6f9e98849edaa8aefc4030ff3500e41556e83ff7 > - > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c2ff2b736c41cc63bb0aaec85cccfead9fbcfe92 > - > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a0f4b7879f2e14986200747d1b545e5daac8c624 > - > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f74f820f6fc844b95f9e5e406e0a07d97510420 > (kernel 6.6 and 6.7-rc1) > > As Bruno said, Kernel 6.3.0-2-parisc fails the testcase, while Kernel > 6.3.7-t2-parisc > works ok.
Given this appears to be a kernel problem, I'm reassigning this bug to src:linux. I'd appreciate it if you could close the bug, if you deem it solved. Chris
