Re: [parisc-linux] c3k panics

["Joel Soete" <soete.joel@tiscali.be>]

>
> I believe that there's likely more than one bug.  After working around
> the memory management bug, I tried a number of gcc builds.  Two crashes=

> occurred as previously reported.  I also had a third crash.  In this
> one, the TOC IIA Offset value pointed into "userspace".  These all
> occurred with only a few hours of running time.
>
Sorry but I don't remember if I already mentioned some more results about=

test getting rid of cffc():
I reach to boot successfully this kernel which didn't panicing any more;
anyway after enough untar, rm the corresponding ext3 fs was switched to r=
ead-only
mode (corruption)?

> I then switched from vmlinux-2.6.11-pa4-c3000_defconfig to
> vmlinux-2.6.8.1-pa11-c3000_defconfig.  This kernel seems ok.  It's
> survived one binutils and three full gcc builds.  However, there are
> seven fails in the libstdc++ testsuite that don't occur with 2.6.11.
> On the otherhand, I'm seeing a few Java processes not terminate with
> 2.6.11-pa4.  This problem doesn't seem to be present in 2.6.8.1-pa11
> and Grant's 64-bit version of 2.6.11-pa4 on gsyprf11.
>
imho and according to my numerous test (that took me more time on b180) 2=
.6.8.1-pa11
(+some Kyle backport) seems to be rock solid, and iirc early 2.6.10 alrea=
dy
presented the pb (2.6.9 seems also?)

> I'm going to try a few more kernels to see if it's possible to isolate
> the change that introduced the problem.
>
Thanks (that's too much time I am working in blind on this pb, I very nee=
d
a breack)

Joel


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