>> Hmmm. The dangling else clauses are pretty gross, and in fact we >> have >> the same problem on POWER3 and RS64 processors (to be fair, we had >> the problem before and didn't notice, but we should still fix it). >> >> How about this instead? Could people test it please? (Note that >> CPU_FTR_NOEXECUTE is 0 in 32-bit kernels.) >> >> Paul. >> >> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c >> index 0ece513..99c3093 100644 >> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c >> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c > > Acked-by: Jon Loeliger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Tested on 8641HPCN.
Which glibc versions? glibc-2.4 and newer are fine without the patch already, glibc-2.3 seems to get away by accident; but 2.2 (and before) are the problematic ones. No other userland program has been identified as needing this fix, btw -- thankfully, or the testing matrix would be _huge_. Segher _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
