Reposting as vger is anal about mail format... On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 10:45 PM, John David Anglin <dave.anglin@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I believe both versions fix the minifail bug and some thread related bugs > seen in the perl, python and git testsuites. However, there are still more > thread related bugs to fix. > > The minifail bug is fixed by the TLB purge added to ptep_set_wrprotect, > and flushing the `from' page in copy_user_page (kmap version). The > tmpalias version doesn't need this flush, but the `to' page needs to be > flushed. So, both versions have about the same flush requirements. > > This version fixes the math emulation bug that I reported, but I have > another one that I haven't tracked down. That's awesome news! If you want write access to the wiki to update e.g. this page http://wiki.parisc-linux.org/TestCases I'd be more than happy to add your account to the ACL. > It would be great if someone else could test the change on something other > than a rp3440. The cache issues are very subtle. If the results are positive, > I will break up the patch and formally submit it. Well I have an a500-5x (PA8600) that's doing nothing, but I really don't have time to do any kind of testing now or in the near future. I'd be happy to provide access to the hardware tho. HTH T-Bone -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- 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
