arm: TI BeagleBoard X15 : Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000369 - Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] SMP ARM

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 2:20 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2022, at 13:57, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > One thing that sticks out is the print_constraints_debug() function
> > in the regulator framework, which uses a larger-than-average stack
> > to hold a string buffer, and then calls into the low-level
> > driver to get the actual data (regulator_get_voltage_rdev,
> > _regulator_is_enabled). Splitting the device access out into a
> > different function from the string handling might reduce the
> > stack usage enough to stay just under the 8KB limit, though it's
> > probably not a complete fix. I added the regulator maintainers
> > to Cc for thoughts on this.
>
> I checked the stack usage for each of the 147 functions in the
> backtrace, and as I was guessing print_constraints_debug() is
> the largest, but it's still only 168 bytes, and everything else
> is smaller, so no point hacking this.

You mentioned that we are doing probing of a device 6 levels deep.
Could one of the parent devices be marked for an asynchronous probe
thus breaking the chain?

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry