Re: [PATCH 1/4] MIPS: Replace _PAGE_READ with _PAGE_NO_READ

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On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 03:06:35PM -0700, Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Jayachandran C.
> <jayachandranc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The current linux-mips queue works for me, and I don't have the old source
> > or binaries with me anymore. You surely should be able build with
> > nlm_xlr_defconfig and see if the rixi is enabled in the build, if you want
> > any config register dump on the CPU, please let me know.
> 
> I was able to locate an old MIPS R5000 based system and get linux-mips
> queue running on it.  Here are the settings:
> 
> CONFIG_ARCH_DMA_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> CONFIG_64BIT_PHYS_ADDR=y
> CONFIG_ARCH_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT=y
> CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_CPU_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_SYS_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_CPU_SUPPORTS_64BIT_KERNEL=y
> CONFIG_32BIT=y
> # CONFIG_64BIT is not set
> CONFIG_SMP=y
> 
> This was intended to mimic the XLR configuration: 32-bit kernel on a
> 64-bit CPU with 64-bit physical addressing, SMP (albeit with 1 CPU),
> no RI/XI.
> 
> After applying all 4 of my page cleanup patches, the system still
> booted and ran normally.
> 
> Userspace is glibc with a bash shell (also tried uClibc w/bash, same
> result).  Since the reported assertion appeared to be in bash.
> 
> Jayachandran - how do you think we should debug this?  It seems like
> the problem only shows up on XLR.  Since this is a relatively new
> platform, is it possible that something else might be broken still?

Can you send me the patchset which works on top of queue with any
debugging you want enabled?  I can try that and send you the results.

It is also possible that something is broken with the XLR platform code,
it is currently almost straight r4k...

Thanks,
JC.



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