Re: gdb strangness Under 2.3.11-pre1

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:22:12 +0200 (CEST)


On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > btw., in case you can reproduce the 'bad page middle entry ...'
> > messages, do they go away if you remove the lazy-TLB support for
> > bdflush? (the PF_LAZY_TLB changes in buffer.c)
>
> No. In sys_bdflush, I made the func==1 case just return sync_old_buffers,
> as before, but the messages still occur when shutting down.

and if you disable CLONE_TLB completely, ie. if you comment out these
lines from fork.c:

if ((clone_flags & CLONE_TLB) && capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
new_flags |= PF_LAZY_TLB;

do the messages go away?

-- mingo

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