Re: Re: call_init in libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11

On 2/19/07, John David Anglin <[email protected]> wrote:
> While this might be a kernel TLB management problem, there's no strong
> evidence of that and I wouldn't automatically assign the problem to the
> pa8800 bug black hole.  This could just as easily be a bug in the dynamic
> loader.  The system now runs for weeks with only occasional problems in
> UP mode.  Will see about SMP mode.
>
> The memory corruption is very limited and appears to occur in the
> initial phase of loading libc.  It's happened twice while the echo
> command tried to generate a file list building libjava.  Tens of
> thousands of other applications have been launched successfully.
> Probably, a lot more applications would die if memory corruption
> was rampant.

Out of curiosity did the space registers match between the core dump
and the user fault printed by the kernel?

c.