Apparent kernel bug with GDB on ppc405

[Josh Boyer]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:51:22 +1000
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 18:41 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > Not completely implausible, but a) why isn't this seen on basically
> > > every machine with software TLB? b) why does -local- GDB, which is
> > > presumably doing much less work than gdbserver + network stack, not fail?
> > 
> > You said it yourself.  Local gdb does more work -> blows through more
> > TLB entries.
> > 
> > I can't answer you about the other half, but I'm pretty sure TLB
> > invalidation is already supposed to be happening... somewhere.
> 
> Yes. do_wp_page() -> ptep_clear_flush() -> flush_tlb_page()

Aren't there cases in do_wp_page that don't call ptep_clear_flush?
Seems anonymous pages, and possibly shared writeable pages skip that
step if reuse is true.

josh