[parisc-linux] 2.4.18 SMP instability

[Robert Stanford <rob@rotapile.com>]

Regarding the below post, have the SMP issues been worked out on 2.4.18
yet? Im running 2.4.18-25 and the machine seems to lock whenever I try
to use apt with an smp kernel.

apt-get(3766): unaligned access to 0x403ce094 at ip=0x4005e47f     

Although I was doing some benchmarking and was able to make -j 3 vmlinux
using a 2.4.18-25 SMP kernel with no problems.


Robert Stanford


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From: Matthew Wilcox (willy@debian.org)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 14:40:12 MDT

On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 03:16:25PM -0400, D'Ausilio, John wrote:
> Is the 2.4.18 which comes down from the archive as recent as the ones
in the
> FTP server? I'm going to boot back into the original kernel and try
getting
> the latest from the FTP server .. if that dosn't work I guess I'll get
the
> sources and build from CVS. Any other hints/clues/suggestions? Should
I just
> run single proc for now?

Yes, we've also found 2.4.18 to be unstable SMP. I believe Grant has a
handle on this problem now, so expect it to be fixed quite soon.
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