From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mike Frysinger Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 06:38:46 -0500 Message-ID: <201303030638.48139.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <20130203225909.GA14573@p100.box> <20130204163743.248510@gmx.net> <510FEBBD.9000207@bell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7382436.PEgfhiaOuI"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Cc: Helge Deller , eike-kernel@sf-tec.de, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com To: John David Anglin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <510FEBBD.9000207@bell.net> List-ID: List-Id: linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org --nextPart7382436.PEgfhiaOuI Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 04 February 2013 12:11:25 John David Anglin wrote: > On 2/4/2013 11:37 AM, Helge Deller wrote: > >>> Von: Rolf Eike Beer > >>>=20 > >>> 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=3D%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. > >>>=20 > >>> Is this series expected to fix the thread related problems I see in t= he > >>> git testsuite? > >>=20 > >> I expect so, if not, please let us know! > >=20 > > Ahem... actually: > > MAYBE!!! > >=20 > > 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 > >=20 > > 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. > >=20 > > 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... >=20 > Just a note, these packages are for debian systems. I believe that Eike = is > running gentoo. With respect to glibc, Carlos had a set of changes which= I > submitted to Debian. The full set was accepted around the -30 unstable > release. > I think most of these are in gentoo but the matter needs review. afaik, Gentoo's glibc-2.17 should have all relevant fixes =2Dmike --nextPart7382436.PEgfhiaOuI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJRMzZIAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WB25IQAMgHryUzLbcF3LrbWcnanLI8 /fVsyxuQnbKQ3Wtn19p8Rs1uJmZjIHK/pcu1thbuUbY7TxpXbZNuGT5lU1mIkZpG PC8WTomP5ZKH4cL8hIaw1LyyledZgSwiu9wRVfP08oTzNwgWARMK+lop7FGnHFQ8 p3Q9BQ8Cb9ZmZIeBYcAfQ7nrewU1vapuy2Ic10rk6hus3pF4F5B8IvBJ0hcwpkMt 0DkOCN4uwrFJLALpqtisrcqf/BfAu8I3Q1/TFcuoXPEZvcRBkd1qURlcPX9Cekzx 1lWD5TOLHpSYzk8avgGZdu/TiQTyg4PZzyuaQfrJynAMLCArCiVQl6f+wWIJoJM6 K4NmSJX2vx5k5/RVuubrfF5fZ+IRcZCD/tqiIhYtaBrWrVhoAhXPd+hCZ6lKmncf WDk0Ky5P9ackbum0s2kDs37dpkHPMxxlmOxgWuZ54uzs+r8uME2YoESijFpXAVBN sP0wEJl0yUbFyIvoITLhFd1i+7AC8UpgcJ5YYnO5paGMb++lRQmx/CCI+9bxpNEG EwUyaNp7fy382Y4VunQLKaL0/hcomwT/hQKIUloRpFRrPDoehkCAVMrIokdpquxe DwmohLS4Sq+JyZu8ModeYuqMLiOAuYlJvBXakltpZksKWKGmJAV62eIvHfWC03Bl dEr/Q/lZXMxppBA+pAzM =gyKJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7382436.PEgfhiaOuI--