> I have been testing devel kernels on SMP L1000 successfully until > 2.6.38-rc2-00324-g70d1f36 included. The testing means booting the new > kernel and running aptitude to update to current debian unstable. > > Now I tried 2.6.38-rc3 and got a crash from aptitude on 2 out of 2 > tries. Maybe aptitude was broken inbetween but it looks like a kernel > bug. Retried 2.6.38-rc2-00324-g70d1f36 and that seemed to work fine so > it's more likely a kernel problem. If aptitude fails consistently, it should be possible to debug or isolate to a particular kernel change. Usually, SMP segvs don't provide much information as to the cause of the problem. strace output and a gdb backtrace would be useful. I have seen improved SMP stability building with GCC 4.5.3 (try a recent snap). This fixes an asm/branch problem. It seems like James' flush patch hasn't been pulled. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
