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SubjectRe: Random crashes with 2.6.27-rc3 on PPC
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Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:

> The following workaround seems to fix the crashes on powerpc.
> However, this patch is clearly not what we want for other architectures,
> as they might need -fno-omit-frame-pointer to function properly.

This has a better chance to be accepted. :-)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 8b5a7d3..f9a2e48 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -394,7 +394,7 @@ config LOCKDEP
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
select STACKTRACE
- select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS
+ select FRAME_POINTER if !X86 && !MIPS && !PPC
select KALLSYMS
select KALLSYMS_ALL

> Index: linux-2.6/kernel/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/Makefile 2008-08-24 11:50:23.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6/kernel/Makefile 2008-08-24 12:15:54.000000000 +0200
> @@ -92,13 +92,13 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += sched_cpupri.o
> ifneq ($(CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER),y)
> # According to Alan Modra <alan@linuxcare.com.au>, the -fno-omit-frame-pointer is
> # needed for x86 only. Why this used to be enabled for all architectures is beyond
> # me. I suspect most platforms don't need this, but until we know that for sure
> # I turn this off for IA-64 only. Andreas Schwab says it's also needed on m68k
> # to get a correct value for the wait-channel (WCHAN in ps). --davidm
> -CFLAGS_sched.o := $(PROFILING) -fno-omit-frame-pointer
> +CFLAGS_sched.o := $(PROFILING)

CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER is already enabled on powerpc.

Andreas.

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