Re: Apparent kernel bug with GDB on ppc405

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-10-27T01:36:50Z

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:41 -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:51:22 +1000
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 18:41 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:32:50PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > > > Not completely implausible, but a) why isn't this seen on basically
> > > > every machine with software TLB? b) why does -local- GDB, which is
> > > > presumably doing much less work than gdbserver + network stack, not fail?
> > >
> > > You said it yourself. Local gdb does more work -> blows through more
> > > TLB entries.
> > >
> > > I can't answer you about the other half, but I'm pretty sure TLB
> > > invalidation is already supposed to be happening... somewhere.
> >
> > Yes. do_wp_page() -> ptep_clear_flush() -> flush_tlb_page()
>
> Aren't there cases in do_wp_page that don't call ptep_clear_flush?
> Seems anonymous pages, and possibly shared writeable pages skip that
> step if reuse is true.

Nah, if that was broken, everybody would be in bad shape. I think I know
what's up, see my other email.

Cheers,
Ben.