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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: 16k or 64k PAGE_SIZE and "illegal instruction" (signal -4) errors
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 14:11:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140826121129.GC24146@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53FC7790.80602@gentoo.org>

On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 08:03:28AM -0400, Joshua Kinard wrote:

> Yeah, coherency shouldn't be a problem for the Octane.  hardware-coherent
> like IP27.
> 
> The icache snooping fix is already enabled in
> arch/mips/include/asm/mach-ip30/cpu-feature-overrides.h:
> 
> #define cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store 1
> 
> SMP is not working yet on IP30, though.  I gave up on that for now, because
> I can't get the second CPU to start ticking properly.

Are you running a preemptible kernel?

You could also change the definition of cpu_icache_snoops_remote_store to 0
for testing.  That should make things just a bit slower but otherwise have
not impact.  Would be interesting to see if that makes the SIGs go away.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-26 12:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-26  9:27 16k or 64k PAGE_SIZE and "illegal instruction" (signal -4) errors Joshua Kinard
2014-08-26 10:20 ` 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 [this message]
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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