[PATCH 4/8] 8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions.
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Oct 15 08:14:48 EST 2009
Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
>> With that, I don't see the hard lockup, but things get stuck during
>
> You needed both to loose the hard lockup? I would think
> it should be enough to revert the "various copy routines" stuff?
No, but when I just reverted the patch and didn't change the TLB error handler,
I got some other weirdness (assertion failure in some userspace program). It
may have been coincidental, though.
>> I think there's something else going on in the 2.6 8xx code that needs
>> to be fixed before we can tell what the impact of these patches is.
>> I'll look into it.
>
> Great because I am really out of ideas. Perhaps back down to 2.6.30 and test
> from there?
I think the last working version was a little older than that -- and it's quite
possible that there was underlying badness even earlier that just recently got
exposed. I think I want to just debug it and find out what's really going on.
-Scott
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