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Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:41:29 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: Split 'flush_old_exec' into two functions - 221af7f87b97431e3ee21ce4b0e77d5411cf1549
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On 02/01/2010 10:07 AM, Jason Wessel wrote:
> 
> Add to the afflicted architecture list a ppc64 kernel running 32 bit
> user space apps such as a dynamically linked busybox:
> 
> file bin/busybox
> 
> ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV),
> dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
> 
> 
> All that is reported on boot is:
> 
> [clip]
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly on device 0:13.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 264k freed
> /sbin/init: error while loading shared libraries: out of memory: Cannot
> allocate memory
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> Rebooting in 180 seconds..QEMU: Terminated
> 

That's is fully to be expected, since PowerPC also does the
TIF_ABI_PENDING garbage, which needs to be removed.

	-hpa
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