Kernel related (?) user space crash at ARM11 MPCore

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Sep 23 08:51:46 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 13:42 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:12:23PM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> > OABI is obsolete legacy, so while it should (perhaps) be
> > kept working, it should not be allowed to negatively affect
> > the performance of pure EABI systems.
> > 
> > If option 3 is best for EABI then that's my vote.
> 
> However, Catalins benchmarks don't include testing my patch with EABI
> executables with RIX disabled, so we really don't know how it would
> behave.

I'll do it shortly, no problem. But since it didn't take VM_EXEC into
account, I thought it wouldn't really matter. But I see where you come
from - just for comparison with my workaround.

-- 
Catalin




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