Hi Rick!

On 8/12/20 6:50 AM, Edgecombe, Rick P wrote:
> On non-x86, this patchset shouldn't have changed much, just always
> flush the TLB and purge the vmalloc area in cases where previously this
> would only happen intermittently. Despite this, it also caused a
> problem on sparc. In the end the sparc issue turned out to be an issue
> with sparc's kernel range TLB flush implementation that was just now
> being hit earlier during boot instead of after the system had been up
> for some time. So I'm at first wondering if there might be something
> like that uncovered here.

Yeah, I am also suspecting a bug in the ia64-specific mm code which got
just unconvered by your changes.

> Unfortunately, it's unlikely that I can get access to ia64 hardware in
> the near term to debug. Would you be able to test some debug patches?

I can both test patches for you and arrange access to one of the Itanium
servers I manage if you want to test patches yourself. Both works fine.

> Also, can you post your config?

See attached.

Adrian

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