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From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Dual opteron various segfaults with 2.6.14.2 and earlier kernels
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:55:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200511232255.57716.andrew@walrond.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511231537.49320.cova@ferrara.linux.it>

On Wednesday 23 November 2005 14:37, Fabio Coatti wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm seeing several segfaults on a couple of HP DL585 Dual Opterons, 8Gb ram
> each.
>
> The segfaults are like this:
> factorial[17031]: segfault at 0000000000020f31 rip 00000000004035ae rsp
> 00007fffffe287e0 error 4
> factorial[17034]: segfault at 0000000000020f31 rip 00000000004035ae rsp
> 00007fffffc6f450 error 4
> factorial[17038]: segfault at 0000000000020f31 rip 00000000004035ae rsp
> 00007fffffdbd060 error 4
> factorial[17044]: segfault at 0000000000020f31 rip 00000000004035ae rsp
> 00007fffffb48fa0 error 4
> factorial[17046]: segfault at 0000000000020f31 rip 00000000004035ae rsp
> 00007fffffc2a7f0 error 4
> ld[3997]: segfault at 0000000000000020 rip 00002aaaaad1a525 rsp
> 00007fffffa8e960 error 4
> ld[4234]: segfault at 0000000000000020 rip 00002aaaaad1a525 rsp
> 00007fffffc3a1e0 error 4
>
> This is only an example; often during some "make", also sed segfaults (!).
> I've seen this with 2.6.12, 2.6.13.4, 2.6.14.2
>

The symtoms look just like the TLB flush filter errata which affected SMP 
x86_64 kernels upto (at least) 2.6.13.4. IIRC it was fixed for 2.6.14 (at 
least I stopped using the patch after 2.6.13.4).

Are you sure you saw this with 2.6.14+ ?

Andrew Walrond

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-23 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-23 14:37 Dual opteron various segfaults with 2.6.14.2 and earlier kernels Fabio Coatti
2005-11-23 14:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-23 15:49   ` Fabio Coatti
2005-11-23 22:55 ` Andrew Walrond [this message]
2005-11-23 23:26   ` Fabio Coatti
2005-11-24  0:03     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-24  8:07       ` Andrew Walrond

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