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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Ethan Weinstein <lists@stinkfoot.org>
Cc: Rudy Klinksiek <klink@arlut.utexas.edu>, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: "Illegal instruction" traps on smp clients - 2.4.19
Date: 27 Feb 2003 17:23:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1046362987.2019.2.camel@zion.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E5E354D.605@stinkfoot.org>


On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 16:57, Ethan Weinstein wrote:
> Rudy Klinksiek wrote:
>
> | 	Smp and UP kernels work fine on the "server".
> |
> | 	Has anyone else seen this type of problem or something similar?
> |
>
> I have. I run a dual G4(7400), also with CONFIG_HIMEM and got plenty of
> random SIGILL's, SIGABRT's and deamons crashing upon startup until I
> started using Ben's bk tree.  I've been using 2.4.20-ben(x) for quite
> some time now without this problem.
>
> |         This appears to me to be an smp problem.
>
> | 	And then, what can I do about it?  I'm willing to try things
> | 	as my time permits.  I have looked at 2.5.60 memory.c/mmap.c
> | 	and related functions, and trying to port the new methods
> | 	back to 2.4.19 seems to be a rather daunting task.
> |
> |         Comments, suggestions?
> |
> Try rsyncing ben's bk tree and using it, it cleared up this issue for me.
>
> rsync -avz --delete rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh

This is actually my "stable" tree (2.4.20-ben7 at this time). Please
let me know if it's also fixed by the linuxppc_2_4 PPC bk tree (see
penguinppc.org for details on how to get these).

Ben.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-27 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-27 14:44 "Illegal instruction" traps on smp clients - 2.4.19 Rudy Klinksiek
2003-02-27 15:57 ` Ethan Weinstein
2003-02-27 16:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-02-27 16:37 ` David Bryan
2003-02-27 18:26   ` Michael R. Zucca
2003-02-27 20:32     ` David Bryan

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