Brokenness in HEAD

[James Sarrett]

Dumb question,

Did you make clean before rebuilding?  this sounds like a classic
linking problem.

-James

Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
>> On Feb 25, 2009, at 8:21 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
>>
>>> Something seems to currently be quite broken in HEAD for PowerPC, at
>>> least on the AIM platform. I'm getting almost immediate panics all
>>> over the place in the kernel, usually indicating memory corruption
>>> somehow (faults on bogus addresses, illegal instructions, etc...).
>>> This is a heads-up to those thinking of updating systems or who
>>> might know what happened.
>>>
>>> The change is on order a week old, and I believe newer than the
>>> 20th. I have not done a full binary search yet, but it is not
>>> related to the following (checked by selective reversion of bits of
>>> the tree, or disabling bits):
>>> - USB code
>>> - ATA code
>>> - Anything in sys/powerpc (the Altivec import in particular)
>>> - Any changes to kernel compile flags or the contents of
>>> /usr/src/share/mk
>>>
>>> The panics seem to correlated with file system use (either UFS or
>>> NFS), but that may just be testing more code paths than a pure
>>> computational load.
>>> -Nathan
>>
>> Could this be related to the USB4BSD changes?
>> -Garrett
> I don't think so. Running a kernel with no USB in it still crashed,
> along with one with no ATA, which has also seen a lot of changes lately.
> -Nathan
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