On 11/29/2011 02:01 PM, Gordan Bobic wrote: > One other thing - one of the manifestations of this bug appears to be > random memory corruption (strange, I know - unless I am dealing with two > totally unrelated problems). Specifically, I have seen the bug manifest > during compile jobs where, for example, linking would segfault, and > re-making would segfault again. But doing: > echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches > would fix the problem. > > My first suspicion was duff hardware/RAM on my AC100. So I got another > one, and it behaves in the exact same way. The most likely explanation is that you've got a data race somewhere. SMP ARM, unlike x86, has a weakly-ordered memory model. Unless everyone is extremely careful, problems like the one you're describing are very likely. Andrew. _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
