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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>
To: John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>
Cc: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org,
	linux-parisc <linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: futex: Use same lock set as lws calls
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:55:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9C9643.6030309@systemhalted.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9C6F9E.5000605@bell.net>

On 10/17/2011 2:10 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> On 10/17/2011 11:47 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>> The test-fork1 failure is still unexplained and happens intermittently.
> 
> I have built a lot of unstable on my rp3440.  I think this one causes failures in the thread
> testsuites of perl, python2.7 and glib2.0.  These are characterized by tests hanging.
> 
> There is another class of failures.  They typically cause my rp3440 to crash due
> to cache corruption.  The GCC libgomp and libatomic-ops testsuite seem to trigger
> this one.  As I have mentioned, it's the libgomp "for" tests that
>>
>> The cancellation issues happen in tst-cancel*.
>>
>> I believe the cancellation issues are toolchain issues and I need to
>> look into them.
> Possibly, this is related to the following bug that I found last week building mpfr-3.1.0:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=50691
> A call to __tls_get_addr clobbers first argument of call to mpfr_cache.  Don't have a
> fix at the moment, but there is a simple testcase.
> 
> On a different subject, I tried to get udev-172-1 working.  However, this breaks bootstrap
> due to an invalid argument in a call to inotify_init.  It's somewhat timing dependent since
> some kernels will boot if they build enough of /dev before udev messes up.  In any case,
> I believe that Guy Martin posted a patch a year or so ago to correct an inconsistency
> between the glibc and the kernel for some bit definitions.  I'm thinking this may fix the
> udev problem.

What patch is this? I don't remember it. URL?

> It appears that this change got lost and didn't make it into the debian glibc patch set.
> Was a consensus reached on how to fix this inconsistency?
> 
> I plan on seeing if I can resolve the GCC mpfr bug, then I want to rebuild glibc with
> the flag bits fixed.
> 
> I also found a GCC ICE compiling udev-172-1 with gcc-4.4.  Gcc-4.5 and gcc-4.6 seem
> ok.


Cheers,
Carlos.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-17 20:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-09 20:40 [PATCH] parisc: futex: Use same lock set as lws calls John David Anglin
2011-10-10 14:30 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2011-10-10 20:27   ` John David Anglin
2011-10-10 20:30     ` James Bottomley
2011-10-17 15:23 ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-10-17 15:47   ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-17 18:10     ` John David Anglin
2011-10-17 20:55       ` Carlos O'Donell [this message]
2011-10-17 21:09         ` John David Anglin
2011-10-17 21:57           ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-10-17 22:28             ` John David Anglin
2011-10-18  9:31               ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-10-18  9:33               ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-10-18 14:20                 ` John David Anglin
2011-10-18  3:01           ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-18  3:21             ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-18 21:22               ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-20 15:35           ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-20 17:57             ` Matt Turner
2011-10-20 18:11               ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-20 18:16                 ` Matt Turner
2011-10-20  1:47       ` John David Anglin
2011-10-21 14:49         ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-21 17:42           ` John David Anglin
2011-10-21 18:11             ` John David Anglin
2011-10-21 18:15               ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-30 15:04                 ` John David Anglin
2011-10-30 15:31                   ` Rolf Eike Beer
2011-10-30 16:13                     ` John David Anglin
2011-10-31  0:21                       ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-10-31  1:36                         ` John David Anglin
2011-10-31  9:41                           ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-10-31 12:28                             ` John David Anglin
2011-10-31 23:26                             ` John David Anglin
2011-11-01  9:15                               ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-11-01  2:15                           ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-11-01  9:19                             ` Domenico Andreoli
2011-11-01 19:56                               ` John David Anglin

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