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* Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> [220519 17:42]:
> On 5/19/22 07:35, Liam Howlett wrote:
> > * Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> [220517 10:32]:
> >
> > ...
> > >
> > > Another bisect result, boot failures with nommu targets (arm:mps2-an385,
> > > m68k:mcf5208evb). Bisect log is the same for both.
> > ...
> > > # first bad commit: [bd773a78705fb58eeadd80e5b31739df4c83c559] nommu: remove uses of VMA linked list
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this on my side, even with that specific commit. Can
> > you point me to the failure log, config file, etc? Do you still see
> > this with the fixes I've sent recently?
> >
>
> This was in linux-next; most recently with next-20220517.
> I don't know if that was up-to-date with your patches.
> The problem seems to be memory allocation failures.
> A sample log is at
> https://kerneltests.org/builders/qemu-m68k-next/builds/1065/steps/qemubuildcommand/logs/stdio
> The log history at
> https://kerneltests.org/builders/qemu-m68k-next?numbuilds=30
> will give you a variety of logs.

I did hunt that down. It looks like it's allocating 512kb and failing.
I tried the commit you see the failures on and my qemu boots fine.

>
> The configuration is derived from m5208evb_defconfig, with initrd
> and command line embedded in the image. You can see the detailed
> configuration updates at
> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/blob/master/rootfs/m68k/run-qemu-m68k.sh
>
> Qemu command line is
>
> qemu-system-m68k -M mcf5208evb -kernel vmlinux \
> -cpu m5208 -no-reboot -nographic -monitor none
> -append "rdinit=/sbin/init console=ttyS0,115200"
>
> with initrd from
> https://github.com/groeck/linux-build-test/blob/master/rootfs/m68k/rootfs-5208.cpio.gz

I'm using buildroot-2022.02.1, so maybe that's the difference?
Buildroot has the following qemu line:

qemu-system-m68k -M mcf5208evb -cpu m5208 -kernel vmlinux -nographic

>
> I use qemu v6.2, but any recent qemu version should work.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Guenter

Thanks for the information. I will keep digging into it.
Liam

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