Control: tag -1 patch On Sun, 2015-07-26 at 23:01 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: forwarded -1 > https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2015/06/msg00005.html > > On Thu, 2015-06-18 at 10:54 -0500, David Matthew Mattli wrote: > > Source: linux > > Severity: important > > Tags: upstream > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > The kernel has a register corruption bug on sparc that is causing corruption > > and failed builds. Enabling SLUB instead of SLAB in the kernel is an > > effective workaround. > [...] > > For this test case, but probably not in general. I think it's a bad > idea to make this change and leave the root cause unfixed. I suggest > someone reminds David Miller that this is still open, as I don't see > any update to that thread in the last month.
I think this is supposed to be fixed by:
commit 44922150d87cef616fd183220d43d8fde4d41390
Author: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu Aug 6 19:13:25 2015 -0700
sparc64: Fix userspace FPU register corruptions.
which is included in 4.1.6-rc1. Can you verify that?
Ben.
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