Machine automagically reboots with 2.6.23-rc2-mm2
Balbir Singh
balbir at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Aug 17 14:37:41 EST 2007
Michael Neuling wrote:
>
> SLB shadow was bust. Make sure you have
> edd0622bd2e8f755c960827e15aa6908c3c5aa94
>
> [POWERPC] Fix potential duplicate entry in SLB shadow buffer
>
> We were getting a duplicate entry in the SLB shadow buffer in
> slb_flush_and_rebolt() if the kernel stack was in the same segment
> as PAGE_OFFSET, which on POWER6 causes the hypervisor to terminate
> the partition with an error. This fixes it.
>
> Also we were not creating an SLB entry (or an SLB shadow buffer
> entry) for the kernel stack on secondary CPUs when starting the
> CPU. This isn't a major problem, since an appropriate entry will
> be created on demand, but this fixes that also for consistency.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
>
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll get the fix and retry.
Balbir Singh.
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