Hugetlb HPTE hashing weirdness
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Sep 23 15:15:45 EST 2005
> Attached is my somewhat hacky hugetlb test suite. Build it with 'make
> all'. I've been reproducing with:
> for i in `seq 1 10`; do ./mmap-gettest 1 10; done
> After about the third or fourth iteration, you should start to see test
> failures.
What machine do you use ?
I can reproduce the problem on a g5 here but strangely not on any LPAR
machine I've tested so far (all POWER5)...
I did find a bug in the hugepage code though I doubt it's the culprit,
I'll test a fix on the g5.
Ben.
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