From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] powerpc/mm: Cleanup handling of execute permission
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:33:20 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1250634800.4810.1.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090818205621.GB2530@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 16:56 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:39:42PM -0500, Becky Bruce wrote:
> > Ben,
> >
> > This breaks the boot on 8572. I don't know why yet (and I'm probably
> > not going to figure it out before I go home, because, frankly, it's late
> > on a Friday afternoon and I need a glass of wine or, perhaps, a beer).
> >
> > Kumar and I will poke into this more and let you know what we find out -
> > in the meantime, if you have any brilliant flashes, pony up!
>
> I tested this on a 440EPx NFS rootfs boot too. It doesn't cause init itself
> to crap out with a SIGILL like Becky's board, but it does do weird things
> and cause a SIGILL elsewhere during my boot.
>
> Reverting this patch from your testing branch allows things to work just fine.
Becky found my thinko, I'll send a new patch later today.
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-18 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-28 7:32 [PATCH/RFC] powerpc/mm: Cleanup handling of execute permission Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-08-14 22:39 ` Becky Bruce
2009-08-18 20:56 ` Josh Boyer
2009-08-18 22:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2009-08-19 20:59 ` Becky Bruce
2009-08-19 22:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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