From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Helge Deller" Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4) Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:37:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20130204163743.248510@gmx.net> References: <20130203225909.GA14573@p100.box> <777a626d6eff1b2a6194dcfa6a8ad313@sf-mail.de> <20130204152456.294020@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, dave.anglin@bell.net To: "Helge Deller" , deller@gmx.de, eike-kernel@sf-tec.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20130204152456.294020@gmx.net> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org > > Von: Rolf Eike Beer > > Helge Deller wrote: > > > This is the first patch in a series of 4, with which the page cache > > > flushing of > > > parisc will gets fixed and enhanced. This even fixes the nasty > > > "minifail" bug > > > (http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases?highlight=%28minifail%29) > > > which > > > prevented parisc to stay an official debian port. Basically the > > > flush in > > > copy_user_page together with the TLB patch from commit > > > 7139bc1579901b53db7e898789e916ee2fb52d78 is what fixes the minifail > > > bug. > > > > Is this series expected to fix the thread related problems I see in the > > git testsuite? > > I expect so, if not, please let us know! Ahem... actually: MAYBE!!! The problem is, that you probably will need an updated glibc (and maybe compiler) as well. Dave has done a lot of work to fix stuff. We have copied the most important update-packages to ftp.parisc-linux.org. To update, just make sure the following lines are in your /etc/apt/source.list file: deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-ports unstable main deb ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/debian-ports/unstable unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main Do *not* just update to the packages of debian-ports.org. If you do that it will render your system unbootable, since the udev-package is broken and it will not find your discs at startup. It's on my todo-list to upload further packages, update the website on how to update your system, and of course to get a buildd working... Helge