Re: HPPA and Squeeze
- To: kyle@mcmartin.ca (Kyle McMartin)
- Cc: carlos@systemhalted.org, randolph@tausq.org, James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, deller@gmx.de, kurt@roeckx.be, pkern@debian.org, debian-hppa@lists.debian.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, debian-release@lists.debian.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca
- Subject: Re: HPPA and Squeeze
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:47:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20090707014710.EF3975022@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20090706214315.GA3826@bombadil.infradead.org> from "Kyle McMartin" at Jul 6, 2009 05:43:15 pm
> If I remember correctly, there's still some issues with the L2 cache on
> pa8800 that we haven't quite bothered to work out yet, since it's "good
> enough" for now. James probably knows more. It would be interesting to
> see if you could reproduce it with a UP 64-bit kernel on your C3750 to
> discount the L2 problems.
Googling, I see Grant had trouble with RCU_TORTURE_TEST=y. Probably,
I should test current kernel to see if the problem is still present.
I guess you are referring to this change:
http://fossplanet.com/linux.debian.devel.kernel.cvs/thread-4378354-r7141-patches/
I'm thinking we must be missing a flush... Maybe in clear_user_page
as for copy_user_page?
Do the problematic debian buildd machines have pa8800/pa8900 processors?
My sense is that some change (probably to the core memory management
code) made the coherence issue worse post 2.6.22.x.
Dave
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