[Cbe-oss-dev] Hardware watchpoints cause kernel hang

[Paul_Rasmussen at playstation.sony.com]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:

>On Friday 16 February 2007 01:09, Geoff Levand wrote:
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>>The args are:
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>>  s64 lv1_set_dabr(u64 dabr, u64 dabrx);
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>>Good luck.  I don't plan to do anything with this.
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>Ok, that's the same as in beat/celleb, so my code may actually
>be right ;-). This definitely needs to be fixed on ps3, but
>I'm not sure if the fix is actually right, or if it matches
>the problem that was reported. Paul, are you able to reproduce
>the bug with my patch applied?
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>	Arnd <><
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Hi Arnd,

Thanks very much for this patch but "applying the patch" is easier said 
than done for me.  I haven't built the kernel before myself and don't 
have direct access to those who have.  If you can give me/point me at 
some relatively simple instructions for doing this, I'd be willing to 
give it a try but I imagine there are many issues involved before one 
can just jump into the kernel building business.  For starters, the 
source code I have access to doesn't match your patch.  So I think its 
going to be up to someone else at Sony to build a patched kernel and try 
this or give it to me to try.  I (or someone else) will let you know the 
outcome when that happens.

Thanks,

- paul r.