On 25.01.2007 [11:59:52 +1100], David Gibson wrote:
> 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]>

Applied, thanks,
Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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