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From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
To: Linux MIPS List <linux-mips@linux-mips.org>
Subject: 16k or 64k PAGE_SIZE and "illegal instruction" (signal -4) errors
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 05:27:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FC5300.4070902@gentoo.org> (raw)

Okay, so from the "make kmap cache coloring aware" thread, I've been playing
with larger PAGE_SIZE values on the Octane and O2 for the last few hours.
16k and 64k used to, in the past, never get far after init (usually died
*at* init)  That appears to have changed now.  Most programs seem to
JustWork(), but very randomly, I am getting a signal -4, illegal instruction
(SIGILL) on the Octane.  Both systems are running kernels w/ 64k PAGE_SIZE
at the moment.

I cannot reproduce it on demand, so I'm not really sure what the cause could
be.  PAGE_SIZE should be largely transparent to userland these days, so I am
wondering if this might be more oddities w/ an R14000 CPU.

Ideas?

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
4096R/D25D95E3 2011-03-28

"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And
our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."

--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-26  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-26  9:27 Joshua Kinard [this message]
2014-08-26 10:20 ` 16k or 64k PAGE_SIZE and "illegal instruction" (signal -4) errors Ralf Baechle
2014-08-26 10:42   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-08-26 10:49     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-08-26 11:49     ` Ralf Baechle
2014-08-26 12:03       ` Joshua Kinard
2014-08-26 12:11         ` Ralf Baechle
2014-08-26 11:06   ` Joshua Kinard
2014-08-26 11:50     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-08-26 12:03     ` Ralf Baechle
2014-08-26 13:16       ` Joshua Kinard
2014-08-26 14:02         ` Ralf Baechle
2014-08-27  0:53           ` Joshua Kinard
2014-09-04  3:35             ` Joshua Kinard
2014-08-26 14:03         ` Ralf Baechle

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