linux-kernel - Re: Kernel Oops with shm namespace cleanups

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Message-ID: <20070302215834.GM10643@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:58:34 -0800
From:	Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@...cle.com>
To:	Adam Litke <agl@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Bill Irwin <bill.irwin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Oops with shm namespace cleanups

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:08 -0800, Bill Irwin wrote:
>> Looks like I should grab these testcases for the sake of due diligence
>> (not to say I intend to alter maintenance style from primarily review,
>> approval, and bugfixing, not that I've been doing as much of any of those
>> as I should). To which architectures and/or distributions have the
>> userspace bits been ported, or otherwise run/tested on? A quick sniff
>> test on an Altix suggests SLES and/or ia64 may trip up the scripts:

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:29:16AM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> Right now we support x86, powerpc, and x86_64.  Segment remapping and
> hugetlb malloc won't work on ia64 until long format vhpt is supported (I
> suspect).  But the test framework should be adaptable to other
> architectures.

Those patches have been around for a while. I'll ping Tony Luck et al
about that since I'm not entirely aware of what their issues might be.
I should probably get some testing in on sparc64 at some point, too.


-- wli
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