From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:10:44 +0100 (BST) Received: from 12-234-207-60.client.attbi.com ([IPv6:::ffff:12.234.207.60]:6530 "HELO gateway.total-knowledge.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 17 Apr 2003 16:10:43 +0100 Received: (qmail 14428 invoked by uid 502); 17 Apr 2003 15:10:38 -0000 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:10:38 -0700 From: ilya@theIlya.com To: Guido Guenther , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: R5000 Linux Message-ID: <20030417151038.GE4485@gateway.total-knowledge.com> References: <200304170912.55096.donath@hks.com> <20030417145650.GJ22768@bogon.ms20.nix> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030417145650.GJ22768@bogon.ms20.nix> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 2096 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ilya@theIlya.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips --+1TulI7fc0PCHNy3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 04:56:50PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > You'll also find a cross toolchain there. The major show stopper for me > is currently the "do_cpu invoked from kernel context!" problem which I > didn't find any time to look into yet. I wonder wether I'm the only > person seeing this? I was able to reproduce it with following simple sequence of events: #(while true; do true; done)>/dev/zero As soon as I interrupt this, do_cpu oops happened. Problem occurs somewhere in signeal handlin code. I didn't investoigate further yet, as for what I am doing at the moment it is not a problem. What is a problem, is memory leak in 2.5.47. Every time *any* process is forked, system permenently looses few K of memory. Modifying above loop to run cat