"Illegal instruction" traps on smp clients - 2.4.19

[Ethan Weinstein]

Rudy Klinksiek wrote:

| 	Smp and UP kernels work fine on the "server".
|
| 	Has anyone else seen this type of problem or something similar?
|

I have. I run a dual G4(7400), also with CONFIG_HIMEM and got plenty of
random SIGILL's, SIGABRT's and deamons crashing upon startup until I
started using Ben's bk tree.  I've been using 2.4.20-ben(x) for quite
some time now without this problem.

|         This appears to me to be an smp problem.

| 	And then, what can I do about it?  I'm willing to try things
| 	as my time permits.  I have looked at 2.5.60 memory.c/mmap.c
| 	and related functions, and trying to port the new methods
| 	back to 2.4.19 seems to be a rather daunting task.
|
|         Comments, suggestions?
|
Try rsyncing ben's bk tree and using it, it cleared up this issue for me.

rsync -avz --delete rsync.penguinppc.org::linux-2.4-benh


- -Ethan Weinstein


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