One patch from John David Anglin which reworks the parisc cache flushing
routines with the aim to fix the random segmentation faults on machines with
PA8800 and PA8900 processors. We have faced those segfaults since many years,
but with this patch no single segfault could be triggered any longer. The
patch was tested by 3 people on 5 different machines with various stable
kernels (6.6, 6.8 and 6.9).
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Merge tag 'parisc-for-6.10-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux
Pull parisc fix from Helge Deller:
"On parisc we have suffered since years from random segfaults which
seem to have been triggered due to cache inconsistencies. Those
segfaults happened more often on machines with PA8800 and PA8900 CPUs,
which have much bigger caches than the earlier machines.
Dave Anglin has worked over the last few weeks to fix this bug. His
patch has been successfully tested by various people on various
machines and with various kernels (6.6, 6.8 and 6.9), and the debian
buildd servers haven't shown a single random segfault with this patch.
Since the cache handling has been reworked, the patch is slightly
bigger than I would like in this stage, but the greatly improved
stability IMHO justifies the inclusion now"
* tag 'parisc-for-6.10-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
parisc: Try to fix random segmentation faults in package builds
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