Re: Debugging Thinkpad T430s occasional suspend failure.

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

The syscall generation *should* make files with different names only, but I'll look.

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Paul E. McKenney
><paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry for the delay in testing this, but there was a need to upgrade
>> my laptop, and bozo here figured "why not go to 64 bits while I am at
>> it?" -- and then proceeded to learn the hard way that it is necessary
>> to do "make mrproper" before doing a build in 64-bit mode.  :-/
>
>Hmm. Our object file dependency check includes checking that the
>compiler options are the same, but that's only true for normal C
>files. Some of the other rules do *not* test the full range of config
>options, so in general, if you change architecture etc models, you do
>indeed want to make sure that you do a "make distclean" (aka "make
>mrproper") or something like "git clean -dqfx".
>
>For a number of other files, we just depend on the normal make
>timestamp logic, which means that "if the object file is newer than
>the sources", we'll trust it. Which obviously doesn't work for cases
>where the object file may have been generated under totally different
>architecture rules..
>
>(That said, what kind of old environment did you do this in?
>stub32_sigaltstack was removed during the merge window, so I'm
>assuming you applied my patch on top of plain 3.7 or something?)
>
>> The kernel build system's way of telling you this at the moment is:
>>
>> arch/x86/built-in.o:(.rodata+0x4990): undefined reference to
>`stub32_sigaltstack'
>
>Adding Peter Anvin to the people, just in case he sees what's wrong
>with the system call stub generation that keeps excessively old object
>files around. If it's easy to fix, it might be worth trying to make it
>ok to switch from i386 to x86-64 and back in the same tree.
>
>Peter? Not a big deal, but if you see something obvious, let's just
>try to fix it, ok?
>
>> Anyway, with this patch, I see CPU stall warnings when running
>rcutorture
>> as shown below.  This is not a hard failure:
>
>Yeah, there's something wrong with the patch, I didn't bother trying
>to figure it out for now. It also causes a hard failure with lockdep
>(or lock proving/debugging, I'm not sure which one triggered it) - and
>it happens too early to even see anything on the screen.
>
>So I'd like to make that "downgrade from hardirq to softirq" atomic,
>and I think it would clean up the crazy code too (currently it does a
>*lot* of back-and-forth on the preempt flags), but I clearly missed
>some case where we used a wrapper or two to add some tracepoint or a
>RCU scheduling point. And I'm not going to worry about it right now,
>since I'm preparing to make v3.8 soon.
>
>But if somebody spots the bug, holler.
>
>                     Linus

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