From: "Christian Joensson" <christian.joensson@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:04:29 +0200 > On 6/2/06, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:52:58 -0700 (PDT) > > > > > I'll also post a little reproducer program that can be used to > > > accurately see if the patch really fixes the problem on your > > > machine or not, which should help with the variability of the > > > dpkg corruption case. > > > > As promised: > > > > /* mremap() stress tester for D-cache aliasing platforms. > > * > > * Copyright (C) 2006 David S. Miller (davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) > > * > > great, so if I compile with gcc and run it... I get this: > > [chj@arnljot ~]$ gcc mremap-stress-tester.c > [chj@arnljot ~]$ ./a.out > unmapped region at 0xf7d72000 > Initial main_buf at 0xf7d72000 > Bogus value 00000001 should be 00000002 > [chj@arnljot ~]$ uname -a > Linux arnljot 2.6.16-1.2128sp4 #1 Fri May 26 10:08:13 EDT 2006 sparc64 > sparc64 sparc64 GNU/Linux > [chj@arnljot ~]$ > > which means? It means the kernel you are running has the bug, try to rerun it with the kernel patch I posted, it should no longer produce the: Bogus value 00000001 should be 00000002 lines. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
