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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	davej@codemonkey.org.uk
Subject: Re: [CFT] read+shared mmap write+read data corruption
Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 09:22:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1180362121.3689.7.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070528123311.GA31609@xi.wantstofly.org>

On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:33 +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 07:00:31PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > Ok, output on parisc is:
> > 
> > jejb@ioz:~$ ./a.out
> > firstfirstfirst
> > firstfirstfirst
> > secondsecondsec
> > 
> > Which is correct.  It remains correct even if I drop the msync().
> 
> What else was running when you ran this program, and how many runs
> did you try?  I get a mixture of firstfirstfirst and secondsecondsec
> when the machine I run it on isn't idle.

Both loaded and unloaded ... although you have to be careful how you
load on pa to see coherency problems:  the fork/exec cycle does a full
cache flush.

James


James



  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-28 14:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-27 10:49 [CFT] read+shared mmap write+read data corruption Russell King
2007-05-27 14:16 ` James Bottomley
2007-05-27 22:25   ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-27 23:06     ` David Miller
2007-05-27 23:05   ` David Miller
2007-05-28  0:31     ` James Bottomley
2007-05-28 12:44       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-29  5:35         ` David Miller
2007-05-29  9:12           ` Russell King
2007-05-29 10:26             ` David Miller
2007-05-27 22:24 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-28  0:00   ` James Bottomley
2007-05-28 10:05     ` Russell King
2007-05-28 14:17       ` James Bottomley
2007-05-28 14:39         ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-29  3:06           ` James Bottomley
2007-05-29  3:15             ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-29 14:32               ` James Bottomley
2007-05-29 17:13                 ` Russell King
2007-05-29  5:58           ` David Miller
2007-05-28 15:04         ` Russell King
2007-05-29 15:42       ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-28 12:33     ` Lennert Buytenhek
2007-05-28 14:22       ` James Bottomley [this message]
2007-05-28 12:38 ` Lennert Buytenhek

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