From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: PREEMPT on PPC From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: linuxppc-dev list , "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" In-Reply-To: <1080201697.1217.3.camel@gaston> References: <1080197240.1210.2.camel@gaston> <1080201697.1217.3.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1080399924.2514.14.camel@thor.asgaard.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 16:05:24 +0100 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 09:01, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 17:47, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > I've start looking into the various issues of running CONFIG_PREEMPT > > on ppc32. I found some problems, there may be more, but here's a first > > patch that should apply on a recent 2.6.x. > > > > I suggest if you want to try this out that you run with the various > > kernel debugging options enabled. Report me remaining problems. > > And here's an updated version of that patch that doesn't break > sleep on laptops. I appreciate a lot that you're working on this, but unfortunately, this patch doesn't seem to make any difference here. I still get random segfaults, weird behaviour in galeon, ... as soon as I hit swap. How can I provide useful debugging information? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/