Re: Next April 28: boot failure on PowerPC with SLQB

From: Nick Piggin
Date: Thu Apr 30 2009 - 10:11:54 EST


On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:00:33AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:05:42 +0200 Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, this might do it. The following code now passes some stress testing
> > in a userspace harness wheras before it did not (and was obviously wrong).
>
> Indeed that allows it to boot fine. Thanks.
>
> Tested-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Great, thanks for reporting and testing. This one is especially
important because it is basically scribbling on random memory
:( Pekka, please apply.

Thanks,
Nick


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