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SubjectRe: [patch] smp-2.3.41-A1, (was: Re: BUG? i386 TLB Flushing)
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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