Re: [Valgrind-developers] Fixes for regression failures, part 1 arch independent

[Carl L. <ce...@us...>]

Mark:

On Fri, 2020-02-14 at 14:25 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> For ppc64 and ppc64le I tested both patches and they seem to work
> nicely.
> 
> Fedora release 30 (Thirty)
> Linux 5.2.9-200.fc30.ppc64le #1 SMP Fri Aug 16 21:03:00 UTC 2019
> GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.29.
> g++ 9.1.1 and binutils 2.31.1
> 
> Fedora release 28 (Twenty Eight)
> Linux 5.0.16-100.fc28.ppc64 #1 SMP Tue May 14 17:55:15 UTC 2019
> GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.27.
> g++ 8.3.1 and binutils 2.29.1
> 
> I have also backported the first patch to fedora (since that already
> had the original patch by Eugene backported) and it seems to resolve
> all issues (the second patch isn't needed because grail hasn't been
> backported).

Thanks for the testing.
> 
> On ppc64[be] I do see an issue with the vbit-test:

I looked at the fix mentioned by Aleksandar.  It looks like it is
architecture independent.  I think we have a BE PPC64 machine around. 
I will see if I can reproduce the issue and then try the fix in KDE
#417238.  

                      Carl Love