[PATCH 0/11] Patches for Toshiba Cell reference set

Paul Mackerras paulus at samba.org
Wed Feb 7 08:05:08 EST 2007


Ishizaki Kou writes:

> We found that following phenomenon:
>  - An application calls "munmap"
>  - do_munmap flushes TLB (so HTAB is invalidated)
>  - when exiting spin_unlock(), DEC exception occurs. (!)
>  - One of DEC handler causes data storage interrupt

Interesting.  Did you find out exactly what was causing the DSI in the
decrementer interrupt handling?  It sounds like that is the real bug.

Paul.



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