Re: [PATCH] ppc64: 64K pages support

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 18:16:40 EST


On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 00:08 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 09:01 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > > I didn't have any luck on 2.6.14-git12 either.
> > > > I tried 64k page support on my P570.
> > > >
> > > > Here are the console messages:
> > >
> > > What distro do you use in userland ? Some older glibc versions have a
> > > bug that cause issues with 64k pages, though it generally happens with
> > > login blowing up, not init ...
> >
> > SLES9 (could be SLES9 SP1).
>
> Can you double check? rpm -qi glibc | head should be enough.
> Would be bad if SP2 or SP3 does not work with 64k.
>

I think I am using SLES9. Planning to update to SP3.

# rpm -qi glibc | head
Name : glibc Relocations: (not
relocatable)
Version : 2.3.3 Vendor: SuSE Linux AG,
Nuernberg, Germany
Release : 98.28 Build Date: Wed Jun 30
15:55:45 2004
Install date: Wed Jul 6 17:24:44 2005 Build Host:
gooseberry.suse.de
Group : System/Libraries Source RPM:
glibc-2.3.3-98.28.src.rpm
Size : 6161800 License: GPL, LGPL
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed Jun 30 16:00:21 2004, Key ID
a84edae89c800aca
Packager : http://www.suse.de/feedback
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Summary : The standard shared libraries (from the GNU C Library)

Thanks,
Badari

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