last stable alpha kernel?

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:15:20AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
>  > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:12:06PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > FWIW, here are the results I have for j16 buildworlds on UP alpha so far:
>  > 
>  > *snip*
>  > 
>  > > july22: fault on nofault entry panic
>  > 
>  > We have the fault on nofault entry panic on ia64 as well. I don't
>  > know when I have time to look at ia64, but I keep an eye on alpha
>  > when I trace it down. I suspect the cause is roughly identical
>  > (ia64 pmap was derived from alpha pmap).
> 
> Do you know when they started?  My current results are as follows:
> (all dates relative to GMT-0400)

Unfortunately not. I asked kris to restart package builds on pluto1
two days ago. That's when we got the fault on nofault panics. I
expect that the real bug was present for much longer.

> 
> If you have any advice, please don't be shy ;)
> 

Triaging when the problem first started is definitely what needs
to be done first. I would probably start at the time the pipe
changes came in. That is IIRC roughly two weeks ago. The July 22
datapoint should be fairly close.

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