Re: [PATCH] parisc: fixes and cleanups in page cache flushing (1/4)

[John David Anglin <dave.anglin@bell.net>]

On 2/4/2013 11:37 AM, Helge Deller wrote:
>>> Von: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
>>> 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...
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.

Dave

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John David Anglin    dave.anglin@bell.net