On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 1:30 PM, Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Guys, > > After chasing my tail for ages thinking I had a hardware issue on an > AC100, it looks like the random segfaults and "glibc detected a > corrupted doubly linked list" errors might actually be SMP and/or ARMv7 > related. > > Errors: > - random segfaults > - glibc detected a corrupted doubly linked list > > Distro: Fedora 13 > > Platforms that work flawlessly (24/7 compiling for weeks): > - Marvell Kirkwood (1x SheevaPlug, 1x DreamPlug). > > Platforms that cause repeatable segfaults (same rootfs, same operation): > - Tegra2 (tested using Toshiba AC100 and Compulab TrimSlice) > - OMAP 4xxx (tested on a PandaBoard) > > I'm going to dig into this deeper (boot the machine with nosmp or > tasksetting everything to run on the same core), but in the meantime I > would like to ask if there is a bug in any of the following: > > - glibc > - gcc > - binutils > > that might cause them to misbehave either on: > - ARMv7 (armv5tel packages on armv7l kernel) > or > - SMP ARM systems > (or both) > > I'm going to compile up a clean kernel (without all the hacks I tried on > the AC100 to try to troubleshoot the issue) and try building the > packages in a clean F13 mock just to do a definitive confirmation pass, > but if anyone is aware of any such issues (e.g. due to locking > primitives being different on ARMv7) that have been fixed in > glibc/gcc/binutils recently, I would appreciate any info you may have on > the subject. > > Ubuntu doesn't appear to suffer from this issue, but they use a much > newer gcc and a different glibc than what is in F13. Have you tried a F-14 rootfs? Peter _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
