Subject: Re: 2.6.31-rc5-git2 crash [net/core/flow.c:flow_cache_new_hashrnd]

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:13:54 +1000

On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 22:54 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 08:23:05AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 00:15 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> >
> >> > c000000000600000  00001010      .long 0x1010
> >> > 0:mon>
> >> > c000000000600004  00000008      .long 0x8
> >> > c000000000600008  00001013      .long 0x1013
> >> > c00000000060000c  0000000f      .long 0xf
> >> > c000000000600010  7961626f      rldimi. r1,r11,44,41
> >> > c000000000600014  6f740000      xoris   r20,r27,0
> >> > c000000000600018  00101600      .long 0x101600
> >> > c00000000060001c  00000c00      .long 0xc00
> >> > c000000000600020  00000400      .long 0x400
> >> > c000000000600024  00101100      .long 0x101100
> >> > c000000000600028  000008e9      .long 0x8e9
> >
> >BTW. Corruption looks like bi_recs... ie, broken yaboot. This was fixed
> >recently, yaboot would eventually crap over the kernel for certain sizes
> >of the kernel image.
> >
> >0x1010 = BI_FIRST
> >0x1013 = BI_BOOTLOADER_ID followed by 0x7961626f6f74 which is
> >"yaboot" :-)
> >0x1016 = BI_MACHTYPE
> 
> I know we fixed it in Fedora for F11/F12.  Did it get fixed upstream?

I think Tony did yes. Not sure what's the status with the "enterprise"
distros.

Cheers,
Ben.