Re: [1/2] 2.6.22-rc6: known regressions

From: Mark Fortescue
Date: Wed Jun 27 2007 - 15:00:46 EST


Hi All,

I have done some more work on the sun4c Sparc32 random invalid instruction occourances. The issue only affects the SLAB allocator. The SLUB and SLOB allocators both work OK but SLOB is dreadfully slow making it totally impractical for use on my sun4c. Isolating the problem to the SLAB allocator should make it a bit easier to track down the problem.

It may be desirable to put a comment into Kconfig to indicate that the SLAB allocator is currently broaken for sun4c but that SLUB works well as I dought that I will have found/fixed the problem before 2.6.22.

Regards
Mark Fortescue.

On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Michal Piotrowski wrote:

Hi all,

Here is a list of some known regressions in 2.6.22-rc6.

Feel free to add new regressions/remove fixed etc.
http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions

*STATISTICS* (a.k.a. list of aces)

Name Regressions fixed since 21-Jun-2007
Andi Kleen 1
Hugh Dickins 1
Jean Delvare 1



Sparc64

Subject : random invalid instruction occourances on sparc32 (sun4c)
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/17/111
Submitter : Mark Fortescue <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Status : problem is being debugged

Subject : 2.6.22-rc broke X on Ultra5
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/22/78
Submitter : Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@xxxxxxxx>
Handled-By : David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Status : problem is being debugged



x86-64

Subject : x86-64 2.6.22-rc2 random segfaults
References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/5/24/275
Submitter : Ioan Ionita <opslynx@xxxxxxxxx>
Status : Unknown



Regards,
Michal

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