Bug#561203: threads and fork on machine with VIPT-WB cache
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 07:30:45PM +0300, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On sekmadienis 06 Bir??elis 2010 04:01:23 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > On penktadienis 04 Bir??elis 2010 08:21:06 dann frazier wrote:
> > > > My case and my analysis talked about UP kernel, and John David Anglin
> > > >
> > > > made a patch:
> > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561203#144
> > > >
> > > > After that, the discussion went to SMP cases.
> > > >
> > > > It would be better to evaluate the patch again, and make sure it works
> > > > for UP case and fix failures of buildd, then apply for Linux in Debian
> > > > (only) for HPPA.
> > > >
> > > > I know that the patch is not that ideal because it touches
> > > > architecture independent part of Linux, but it is worth for Linux in
> > > > Debian (or Linux for the HPPA machine of buildd, at least).
> > >
> > > I'm happy to test the patch if necessary to help push this change
> > > upstream. However, we do need the change to go upstream before we can
> > > include it in the Debian kernel.
> >
> > I made a hackish patch for QProcess in Qt (usleep(1000) before fork())
> > which seems to reduce likelihood of the failure to very rare again. Once a
> > new revision of qt4-x11 is uploaded to sid (soon I believe), KDE
> > applications should be able to build again (hopefully).
>
> qt4-x11/hppa 4:4.6.3-1 has recently been uploaded to incoming. It has my hppa
> hack applied. Therefore please give back the following KDE packages on hppa:
>
> kde4libs basket kdesvn webkitkde kraft konq-plugins
done.
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