Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] RFC: patch to improve Xen stability.

Le Jeudi 27 Avril 2006 13:06, Tristan Gingold a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> here is a patch which seems to improve stability.
> Until now, it was able to compile 45 times the linux kernel in a raw,
> without faults.
> I will do more checks during the week-end.
>
> The patch has 3 fixes:
> * 2 obvious fix related to SMP-guest
> * 1 fix: make itc and itr consistent, thus removing dtlb_pte.
As expected, this patch does not fix all the instability.  The crashes are 
less frequent but more localized. Surprise: most of the crashes occur in 
libc:fork.o, after the system call.  They are due to bad values in stacked 
register.

Tristan.



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