Re: [PATCH] user-exec: Do not filter the signal on si_code

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 01/10/2019 à 12:34, Peter Maydell a écrit :
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 22:01, Richard Henderson
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 9/30/19 12:29 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
>>> This is a workaround for a ppc64le host kernel bug.
> 
>>> However, the host kernel has supplied si_code == SEGV_MAPERR,
>>> which is obviously incorrect.
> 
>> It is disappointing about the kernel bug.  But since this affects Centos 7,
>> which is what *all* of the gcc compile farm ppc64 machines use, I think we 
>> need
>> to work around it somehow.
> 
> We knew about the ppc kernel bug in 2018:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg06049.html
> and the decision at that time was to say "kernel bug, update your
> kernel" :-)

Is it possible to update the farm to Centos 8?

Or as the kernel involved is specifically for POWER9, is it possible to
use only POWER8?

Thanks,
Laurent