Hello All, Today I tried again to run linux-image-marvell (4.7.0-0.bpo.1 in this case) on my QNAP TS-221. I had issues with it in the past but did not get around to file a bug.
I have the same version on a TS-219 which is running fine. Booting the TS-221 generates two types of error messages. -->8-- [ 37.167103] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c0caa1e0 idx:1 val:1 [ 783.570365] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c09e6220 idx:1 val:1 [ 800.172223] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ecbc05e0 idx:1 val:1 [ 829.005336] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c0d4b880 idx:1 val:1 [ 871.773956] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:c09e63c0 idx:1 val:1 [ 1299.565344] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:ecaf8c40 idx:1 val:1 -->8-- and -->8-- [ 71.033784] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0xb6c73db0 [ 71.041037] pgd = ead9c000 [ 71.043747] [b6c73db0] *pgd=3fd72831 [ 84.144056] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0xb6d44db0 [ 84.151313] pgd = eaee8000 [ 84.154023] [b6d44db0] *pgd=3fc89831 [ 1300.378292] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.385547] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.388257] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.393119] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.400370] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.403081] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.407834] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9c0 [ 1300.415089] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.417800] [000de9c0] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.424135] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.431387] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.434098] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.438852] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.446107] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.448818] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.453525] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9c0 [ 1300.460773] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.463484] [000de9c0] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.469987] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.477246] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.479957] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.484726] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.491983] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.494693] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.499489] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9c0 [ 1300.506745] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.509456] [000de9c0] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.515763] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.523017] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.525728] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.530470] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9e4 [ 1300.537718] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.540429] [000de9e4] *pgd=3fcd9831 [ 1300.545138] Unhandled fault: external abort on linefetch (0x014) at 0x000de9c0 [ 1300.552394] pgd = e113c000 [ 1300.555105] [000de9c0] *pgd=3fcd9831 -->8-- Running the TS-221 on linux-image-4.3.0-0.bpo.1-kirkwood is very stable. As said, running the TS-219 on linux-image-4.7.0-0.bpo.1-marvell is also stable. Main differences I see between the TS-221 (unstable with 4.7 marvell) and TS-219 (stable with 4.7 marvell) are: * the kernel flavor, * the SoC and * unencrypted raid (TS-219) versus encrypted raid (TS-221). I am unsure if this is hardware related or setup related and also do not know how to further analyze this issue. Also not sure if this should be reported as a bug or not. Any help appreciated. GRTNX, RobJE

