On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:20:11PM -0600, Adam Litke wrote:
> Sonny Rao discovered a bug which affects powerpc machines. If the stack
> is allowed to grow into a segment that has been converted over to huge
> pages, current kernels will try to instantiate normal pages into a huge
> page-only segment. This test case reproduces this behavior for 32bit
> and 64bit binaries.
>
> Since there is no upstream fix for this bug yet, I don't think it's wise
> to run it all the time and needlessly render machines unstable.
> However, we don't want to forget that it's not being run by default
> either. This patch also introduces a SKIP mode to run_tests.sh. It
> will cause the named test to be skipped and a message printed that
> indicates that a test was skipped.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adam Litke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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