From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Tony Mantler <nicoya@ubb.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_MK6 = lsof hangs unkillable
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:31:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060120203104.GA31803@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060120044407.432eae02.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 04:44:07AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Tony Mantler <nicoya@ubb.ca> wrote:
> >
> > I'm having trouble running lsof on 2.6.15.1 when the kernel is
> > compiled with CONFIG_MK6. When run as root, lsof will segfault, and
> > when run as a user lsof will hang unkillable.
> >
> > The same kernel, same machine, but compiled with CONFIG_MK7 runs just
> > lsof just fine.
>
> That's creepy. CONFIG_MK6 hardly does anything. The main thing it does is
> feed `-march=k6' into the compiler. MK7 uses `-march=athlon'.
>...
CONFIG_MK7 results in a bigger L1_CACHE_SHIFT than CONFIG_MK6.
AFAIR it wouldn't be the first time that changing L1_CACHE_SHIFT would
hide a real bug visible with a different L1_CACHE_SHIFT.
cu
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-20 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-16 4:43 CONFIG_MK6 = lsof hangs unkillable Tony Mantler
2006-01-16 22:58 ` Tony Mantler
2006-02-17 1:45 ` Brandon Low
2006-01-20 12:44 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 20:31 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-01-20 22:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-20 22:47 ` Tony Mantler
2006-01-20 23:39 ` Tony Mantler
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