Great! I'll test the patch as soon as possible, but, unfortunately,
not before 12th October.



On 10/2/08, Gilles Chanteperdrix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
>>>> Richard Cochran wrote:
>>>>> I posted this patch today on linux-arm-kernel, but I repeat it
>>>>> here because there does not seem to be too much interest on that
>>>>> list for the ARM FCSE.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also tried to combine this patch with ipipe for kernel 2.6.20
>>>>> running on the Intel IXDP465, but after booting I soon get a BUG.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyhow, perhaps the ARM people might take a look at combining
>>>>> ipipe with FCSE...
>>>> Ok. Six monthes later, I finally gave a try to your patch on at91rm9200,
>>>> which supports FCSE as well.
>>>>
>>>> When booting, I get random segmentation faults (either with or without
>>>> the I-pipe), assertion which fails in glibc, and such things.
>>> A small update: I get the same random failures with a vanilla kernel
>>> (without I-pipe patch at all).
>>>
>>> I will now investigate pmd_populate.
>>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> I changed a few bits here and there in your patch, but I believe the
>> biggest problem was that Linux seem to recycle pids faster than it
>> recycles mm_struct, so we ended up with processes sharing the same
>> space, and since the pid allocation mechanism was a bit too naive for
>> multi-threaded applications, I changed it to a bitfield based solution.
>> I now have an FCSE kernel which seems much more stable (and without the
>> double mapping either). This is the good news.
>>
>> The bad news is that I still get mysterious crashes. So, will now
>> investigate.
>
> Hi,
>
> found the reason for the crash. The system seems to run stable now.
> Here comes the patch.
>
> Could you test it and confirm that there is no problem for you ?
> Bosko: could you test it for arm926 ? I made the needed change in
> arch/arm/mm/proc-arm926.S, but did not check it yet.
> The patch is for vanilla Linux, I did not retest it with Xenomai yet
> (though I tested the previous version with the random crashes, and
> observed a 200us user-space latency instead of the usual 300us).
>
> Regards.
>
> --
>                                                  Gilles.
>

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