Rebooted today after the kernel (from Trixie) was installed a couple of days ago; the panic is extremely early in the initialization phase:
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
[ 0.000000] Linux version 6.12.17-arm64 (debian-kernel@lists.debian.org) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc-14 (Debian 14.2.0-17) 14.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Debian) 2.44) #1 SMP Debian 6.12.17-1 (2025-03-01)
[ 0.000000] KASLR enabled
[ 0.000000] Machine model: Traverse Ten64
[ 0.000000] efi: EFI v2.10 by Das U-Boot
[ 0.000000] efi: RTPROP=0x83dffdf040 SMBIOS=0xf680f000 RNG=0x83dd43f040 INITRD=0x83dd440040 MEMRESERVE=0x83dff8d040
[ 0.000000] random: crng init done
[ 0.000000] secureboot: Secure boot disabled
[ 0.000000] earlycon: ns16550a0 at MMIO 0x00000000021c0500 (options '115200n8')
[ 0.000000] printk: legacy bootconsole [ns16550a0] enabled
[ 0.000000] OF: reserved mem: Reserved memory: No reserved-memory node in the DT
[ 0.000000] NUMA: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000083dfffffff]
[ 0.000000] NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0x83de0d31c0-0x83de0d68ff]
[ 0.000000] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 0.000000] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at mm/sparse.c:142 sparse_init+0x120/0x2d0
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.12.17-arm64 #1 Debian 6.12.17-1
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: Traverse Ten64 (DT)
[ 0.000000] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 0.000000] pc : sparse_init+0x120/0x2d0
[ 0.000000] lr : sparse_init+0x1e8/0x2d0
[ 0.000000] sp : ffffde7ff17c3c90
[ 0.000000] x29: ffffde7ff17c3cb0 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 000000000000001f
[ 0.000000] x26: 00000000083dffdf x25: 0000000000000004 x24: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x23: ffffde7ff0e8e000 x22: ffffde7ff1bbfaa0 x21: ffffde7ff1bcd730
[ 0.000000] x20: 0000000000200000 x19: 0000000008080000 x18: 0000000000000006
[ 0.000000] x17: 6666666666666433 x16: 3830303030303078 x15: 0000000000000001
[ 0.000000] x14: 000000035ffdf000 x13: 0000000000000078 x12: 000000000000000a
[ 0.000000] x11: ffffde7ff18ad1c0 x10: ffffde7ff1bc5350 x9 : 0000000008080000
[ 0.000000] x8 : 0000000000000005 x7 : 0000000000000006 x6 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x5 : ffffde7ff1bc53c8 x4 : ffffde7ff17c3c94 x3 : ffffde7ff17c3ca0
[ 0.000000] x2 : ffffde7ff17c3c98 x1 : 000000035ffdf000 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Call trace:
[ 0.000000] sparse_init+0x120/0x2d0
[ 0.000000] bootmem_init+0x7c/0x1b8
[ 0.000000] setup_arch+0x2c8/0x640
[ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x7c/0x798
[ 0.000000] __primary_switched+0x80/0x90
[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 0.000000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fff32283c77ffe80
[ 0.000000] Mem abort info:
[ 0.000000] ESR = 0x0000000096000004
[ 0.000000] EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
[ 0.000000] SET = 0, FnV = 0
[ 0.000000] EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
[ 0.000000] FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
[ 0.000000] Data abort info:
[ 0.000000] ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
[ 0.000000] CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
[ 0.000000] GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
[ 0.000000] swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000083daabf000
[ 0.000000] [fff32283c77ffe80] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
[ 0.000000] Modules linked in:
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W 6.12.17-arm64 #1 Debian 6.12.17-1
[ 0.000000] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 0.000000] Hardware name: Traverse Ten64 (DT)
[ 0.000000] pstate: 600000c5 (nZCv daIF -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 0.000000] pc : vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0xd4/0x1c0
[ 0.000000] lr : vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0x98/0x1c0
[ 0.000000] sp : ffffde7ff17c3b70
[ 0.000000] x29: ffffde7ff17c3b70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: fff32283c77ffe80
[ 0.000000] x26: ffffde7ff0e8e000 x25: ffffffffba1fffff x24: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x23: ffffffffba200000 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x20: ffffffffba200000 x19: ffffffffba000000 x18: 0000000000000006
[ 0.000000] x17: 6666666666666433 x16: 3830303030303078 x15: 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000010
[ 0.000000] x11: 0000000000024740 x10: 00000083de0b21c0 x9 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] x8 : ffff8081de0b2000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
[ 0.000000] x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : fff32283c77ff000 x3 : 0003a285c77ff000
[ 0.000000] x2 : fff0800200000000 x1 : 0000000000000e80 x0 : 00000000000001d0
[ 0.000000] Call trace:
[ 0.000000] vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0xd4/0x1c0
[ 0.000000] vmemmap_populate+0x30/0x58
[ 0.000000] __populate_section_memmap+0x50/0xe0
[ 0.000000] sparse_init_nid+0x16c/0x340
[ 0.000000] sparse_init+0x284/0x2d0
[ 0.000000] bootmem_init+0x7c/0x1b8
[ 0.000000] setup_arch+0x2c8/0x640
[ 0.000000] start_kernel+0x7c/0x798
[ 0.000000] __primary_switched+0x80/0x90
[ 0.000000] Code: aa030084 cb020084 b24c2c84 8b000c9b (f8616880)
[ 0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[ 0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---
Reporting here first, but since it’s so early in the boot process this may be a problem with the kernel build itself.
