Re: [RT,RFC] Hacks allowing -rt to run on POWER7 / Powerpc.

2010-08-04 Thread Will Schmidt
On Sun, 2010-07-11 at 02:49 -0500, Milton Miller wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 about 08:55:01 -, Will Schmidt wrote: We've been seeing some issues with userspace randomly SIGSEGV'ing while running the -RT kernels on POWER7 based systems. After lots of debugging, head scratching, and

Re: [RT,RFC] Hacks allowing -rt to run on POWER7 / Powerpc.

2010-07-11 Thread Milton Miller
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 about 08:55:01 -, Will Schmidt wrote: We've been seeing some issues with userspace randomly SIGSEGV'ing while running the -RT kernels on POWER7 based systems. After lots of debugging, head scratching, and experimental changes to the code, the problem has been

[PATCH, RT, RFC] Hacks allowing -rt to run on POWER7 / Powerpc.

2010-07-09 Thread Will Schmidt
[PATCH, RT, RFC] Hacks allowing -rt to run on POWER7 / Powerpc. We've been seeing some issues with userspace randomly SIGSEGV'ing while running the -RT kernels on POWER7 based systems. After lots of debugging, head scratching, and experimental changes to the code, the problem has been narrowed