current linuxppc_2_4_devel SMP strangeness.. (processes dieing)

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 31 07:32:38 EST 2001


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:28:40PM -0600, David Boutcher wrote:
> > It's pre5 ? I think Tom's fix is wrong. It should probably be
> > copy_user_page or copy_cow_page (I use the last one). Without that,
> > the cache avoidance will probably win a direct ticket to hell ;)
>
> Changing the fix to copy_cow_page fixed the problem...so I pushed that
> change into the devel tree.  Hopefully Tom doesn't mind.

Not at all.  I just heard Paul say copy_highpage was gone in _devel and
something about copy_mem_page. :)  I need to go and get my breakable
PPCs up and running again....

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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