From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@drgw.net>
Cc: <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>, Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: current linuxppc_2_4_devel SMP strangeness.. (processes dieing)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:28:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011030192830.7817@smtp.wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011030121221.E13806@altus.drgw.net>
>
>
>Then, when I tried to log in over serial console, the login process
>appeared to die after I entered 'root'. If I kept trying, I would
>occasional actually get a password prompt.
>
>
>I think there's something going wrong either in the cache flush avoidance
>stuff, or in the generic smp VM.
>
>(I'm going to finally update linuxppc_2_4 for MTX SMP later today, so I'll
>can hopefully find out if it's a generic VM problem or not)
It's pre5 ? I think Tom's fix is wrong. It should probably be
copy_user_page or copy_cow_page (I use the last one). Without that,
the cache avoidance will probably win a direct ticket to hell ;)
Ben.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-30 18:12 current linuxppc_2_4_devel SMP strangeness.. (processes dieing) Troy Benjegerdes
2001-10-30 18:21 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2001-10-30 19:28 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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2001-10-30 18:50 David Boutcher
2001-10-30 20:28 David Boutcher
2001-10-30 20:32 ` Tom Rini
2001-10-30 22:21 ` Troy Benjegerdes
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