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Re: [Regression 5.7-rc1] Random hangs on 32-bit PowerPC (PowerBook6,7)





Le 18/05/2020 à 17:19, Rui Salvaterra a écrit :
Hi again, Christophe,

On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 15:03, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:

Can you try reverting 697ece78f8f749aeea40f2711389901f0974017a ? It may
have broken swap.

Yeah, that was a good call. :) Linux 5.7-rc1 with the revert on top
survives the beating. I'll be happy to test a definitive patch!


Yeah I discovered recently that the way swap is implemented on powerpc expects RW and other important bits not be one of the 3 least significant bits (see __pte_to_swp_entry() )

I guess the easiest for the time being is to revert the commit with a proper explanation of the issue, then one day we'll modify the way powerpc manages swap.

Christophe


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