Re: PPC upstream kernel ignored DABR bug
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2007-11-28 12:29:48
On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
Please be aware DABR works fine if the same code runs just 1 (always) or 2 (sometimes) threads. =C2=A0It starts failing with too many threads runn=
ing:
=20 $ ./dabr-lost TID 32725: DABR 0x1001279f NIP 0xfecf41c TID 32726: DABR 0x1001279f NIP 0xfecf41c TID 32725: hitting the variable variable found =3D -1, caught TID =3D 32725 TID 32726: hitting the variable variable found =3D -1, caught TID =3D 32726 The kernel bug did not get reproduced - increase THREADS. =20 As I did not find any code in that kernel touching DABRX its value should=
not
be dependent on the number of threads running. =20
Right, this is a different problem from the one reported by Uli. =46rom what I can tell, your problem is that you set the DABR only in one thread, so the other threads don't see it. DABR is saved in the thread_struct, so setting it in one thread doesn't have an impact on any other thread. Arnd <><