Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:44:54 +0000 (GMT) | Subject | Re: [patch] smp-2.3.41-A1, (was: Re: BUG? i386 TLB Flushing) |
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Hi,
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000 21:28:06 +0100 (CET), Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> said:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> I was really, really hoping that this might lay to rest the boot >> failures with PAE36 for me, but no such luck --- 2.3.40 still dies with >> SIGSEGV in init. Zach Brown can reproduce the same thing on one of his >> boxes: Zach, does 2.3.40 do anything to help things for you?
> ok, how about the attached smp-2.3.41-A1 patch: > - fixes dumb cr4 flushing typo found by Manfred
No change. The TLB explanation has a problem: I still get the same problem even when running a non-SMP kernel, and the extra invlpg() instructions in the kmap code should mean that even global pages were being correctly flushed on UP.
--Stephen
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