OLS PARISC BOF 2006

BOF Topics

  1. PA8800

  2. NPTL Debugging

  3. State of the kernel

  4. tmpalias flushing

  5. Git

  6. H/W Support

  7. 64-bit Userspace

  8. Debian Etch

PA8800

  • Random insn run.

  • 2 sockets HPMC (L2 Error?)

  • Logging TLB inserts?

  • sshd and telnetd are repeatable triggers

  • Make and Bash will sometimes segfault

  • Force prefetches?

  • Disable L2 (Grant)

NPTL Debugging

  • More debugging required

  • Mutex, lowlevellock, and futex should be reviewed

State of the Kernel

  • Good!

  • Tulip?

  • USB?

  • Missing futex routines?

  • pselect / ppoll!

  • gen irq!!

  • Kernel headers

  • Header installs

  • Soft lockups gcc 3.4 vs gcc?

  • RW locks broken? RW lock testsuite?

  • Signals bug?

  • process stuck in read()?

  • mremap fails?

tmplalias flushing

No comments.

GIT

  • Shutdown CVS

  • Migrate to?

  • Where do we put userspace/ web/ linux-2.6/ build-tools/?

H/W Support

Some people poke fun at other people with really old hardware.

64-bit Userspace

Some people poke fun at Carlos.

Debian Etch

Raise the SEP field!