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2.6 must-fix list, v2

DISCUSSION Andi Kleen 1 participant 1 message May 13, 2003 2 messages not in the archive

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Andrew Morton <[email protected]> writes:

I fixed a lot of bugs since then. It's not all merged yet and I introduced a few new ones in the process but:

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- memory corruption with IOMMU pci_free_consistent - often causes crashes at shutdown. This is rather mysterious, the code is basically identical to 2.4 which works fine. Can only be seen on systems with >4GB of memory or with iommu=force

This is fixed.

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- change_page_attr corrupts memory/crashes. Breaks some AGP users.

This is also fixed.

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- some fixes from 2.4 still need to be merged

This is basically done, except the timing code.

Current new bug list:

- 32bit vsyscalls seem to be broken
- 32bit elf coredumps are broken

Required/Wanted features:

- need to coredump 64bit vsyscall code with dwarf2
- move 64bit signal trampolines into vsyscall code and add dwarf2 for it.
- describe kernel assembly with dwarf2 annotations for kgdb (currently waiting on some binutils changes for this)

-Andi