Subject: Re: Ultra 10, anyone?
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 08/22/2002 11:48:19
On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:27:38AM -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 10:23:16AM -0700, Andrey Petrov wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure if that hme or not but the following patch fixed
> > 'signal 11' during NFS build for me. I have some theory about
> > aliased shared pages, but it's just guess with no prove at this
> > point.
>
> Please check this patch in. For a write-back cache, when MOD is cleared,
> the cache *must* be written-back, otherwise it is possible for data to
> be lost.
>
I'd rather wait some time for feedback from other people. It's more
like workaround, not fix.
Andrey