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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Todd Inglett <tinglett@us.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Volkmar Uhlig <vuhlig@us.ibm.com>, David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Fix small race in 44x tlbie function
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:01:31 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1186642891.938.219.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CEBBAD6A-9C83-4E9A-9752-8F089894E56C@kernel.crashing.org>

On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 01:35 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> >>>> Did you actually see this happen?
> >>>
> >>> Yes.
> >>
> >> When?
> >>
> >> We don't have critical wired to anything, I don't expect watchdog to
> >> cause another fault.. so just wondering.
> >
> > On debug (trace) interrupts on blue gene.
> 
> Do you know why the debug code caused a fault?

Sure, it may access vmalloc space for example, which can cause a TLB
miss...

Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-09  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-07  4:20 Fix small race in 44x tlbie function David Gibson
2007-08-08 14:49 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-08 15:20 ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-08 16:00   ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-09  5:28     ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-09  5:34       ` David Gibson
2007-08-09  6:35         ` Kumar Gala
2007-08-09  7:01           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-08-09 12:04       ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-09 13:05         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-09 13:26           ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-08 20:43 ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-08-08 21:29   ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-08 22:11     ` Hollis Blanchard
2007-08-08 23:30       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-08 23:41       ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-08 23:01     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-08-09  0:06       ` Josh Boyer
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2007-08-08 15:34 Volkmar Uhlig

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