On 11/29/2011 02:42 PM, Andrew Haley wrote: > 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. Indeed, I was thinking about some kind of a concurrency issue, too, but the question is how to fix it. Assuming for a moment that it is not a kernel issue (other people are running he same kernel with Ubuntu without this problem), are we talking about glibc? Or are you saying that _any_ package could be responsible for such a thing? How can this be fixed? Gordan _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
