Re: 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults

[John David Anglin]

> > This is possibly the infamous COW bug.
> 
> The COW bug that is triggered by a COW from an LWS-CAS? The solution
> to which is to use locks around the LWS-CAS even on UP? I'd forgotten
> about this issue actually, I should push that patch out to James.

I was actually thinking of the fork/clone race for which there are various
testcases on the wiki.  The aptitude segv is with a SMP kernel, so I don't
think this is the UP LWS_CAS issue.  However, I agree you should push
the change.

Dave
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