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

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

On 2/4/2013 12:57 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> John David Anglin wrote:
>> 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.
> Oh Dave, I wanted to write a mail with "apt-get: no such command" or something
> ;) I have tested your patchset you sent on 2012-12-31 and it fixed my git
> issues. So it simply boils down to: is everything from that patchset now in
> Helge's tree?
Mostly.  I believe there is still some stuff for entry.S and syscall.S 
that's not in the tree but I haven't
checked.  All the cache related changes are mow in Helge's tree plus 
some other changes.

Dave

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John David Anglin    dave.anglin@bell.net