Subject: Re: Recent macppc kernels hang under load
To: None <port-macppc@netbsd.org>
From: Dave Huang <khym@azeotrope.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/13/2003 13:44:14
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:06:12AM -0500, Dave Huang wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 03:58:13PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > I take it that this used to work before 3 or 4 weeks ago...
> > if so, you could binary search for the check-in that broke it.
> 
> Well, I'd get random SIGILLs, but the kernel never died... I did the
> binary search, and I guess I was misremembering when I said I first
> noticed the problem 3 or 4 weeks ago. Looks like it started around Aug
> 12... perhaps it was Matt Thomas's "cleanup/rework cpu_switch*,
> switch_exit, Idle routine" in sys/arch/powerpc/powerpc?

I don't mean to be _overly_ pushy (just slightly pushy :), but does
anyone have any ideas about this? Unfortunately, the bug is probably
too deep in the powerpc locore stuff for me to debug myself.