[OpenWrt-Users] ps and top say "Segmentation fault"

[Gautam Iyer]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:42:04AM +0200, Harald Schiöberg wrote:

>> I have a kamikaze (compiled from the svn trunk a few days ago.
>> Uses kernel 2.6.23) running on a wrtsl54gs.  Overall it works OK, but
>> every once in a while, it gets into a state where `ps' and `top' do not
>> work and just segfault (after printing the first line header).
> 
> 2.6 kernels have some bugs in cache-handling on the broadcom CPUs, as
> the cache on this CPUs is not 100% mips compliant. This results in
> occasional segfaults. It is not an OpenWRT specific problem but a know
> issue with the kernel on that platform.
> 
> The only way around is using 2.4.

Has this been resolved in the 2.6.25/26 kernels?

GI

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