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Message-Id: <1183520006.29081.79.camel@shinybook.infradead.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:33:25 -0400
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To: Mark Fortescue <mark@...hpc.demon.co.uk>
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
Christoph Lameter <clameter@...r.sgi.com>,
William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparc32: random invalid instruction occourances on
sparc32 (sun4c)
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 04:27 +0100, Mark Fortescue wrote:
> I tried the previous patch and it looks like it fixes the issue however
> one of the test builds I did caused depmod to use up all available memory
> (40M - kernel memory) before taking out the kernel with the oom killer.
> At present, I do not know if it is a depmod issue or a kernel issue.
> I will have to do some more tests later on to day.
That's almost certain to be an unrelated issue.
> I have looked at the latest patch below and am I am still not sure about
> two areas. Please take a look at my offering based on your latest
> patch (included here to it will probably get mangled).
>
> Note the change to lines 2178 to 2185. I have also changed/moved the
> alignment of size (see lines 2197 to 2206) based on your changes.
The first looks correct; well spotted. The second is just cosmetic but
also seems correct. I might be inclined to make the #define
'RED_ZONE_ALIGN' and use it in the other places too.
--
dwmw2
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