Hello Mike, hello linux-kernel hackers,
Mike Galbraith wrote:
> Yes, hmm indeed. Try these two things.
>
> 1. make DECLARE_MUTEX_LOCKED(sem) in bdflush_init() static.
> 2. compile with frame pointers. (normal case for IKD)
>
> My IKD tree works with either option, but not with neither. I haven't
> figured out why yet.
1 worked for me, too - with the same effect as compiling buffer.c with
2.95.2, thus meaning successful boot and heavy crashing later on.
I haven't tried to boot 2 yet, but this looks seriously fishy to me. It would
be nice if we could make a simpler testcase to reproduce it, as it's much
work to boot the kernel over and over again.
I have now printed out the buffer.c:bdflush_init assembly for all four cases,
2.95.2, 2.97 without patch, 2.97 with static DECLARE... and 2.97 with frame
pointer, and will try to figure out what's going wrong - it would still be
nice to know if its a gcc problem or if some kernel assumption about GCC
behaviour triggered this bug, which seems equally likely, as kernel_thread
and the mutex/semaphore stuff involve some nontrivial (at least for beginners
like me...) hand-made assembly code.
A nice evening and still merry christmas to the people westward of Europe :-)
Andreas
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