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User-space lockdep [3.14]
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+ Kernel threads and interrupts all run in same address space,
+ using several different synchronisation mechanisms
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+ Easy to introduce bugs that can result in deadlock, but hard to
+ reproduce them
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+ Kernel's 'lockdep' system dynamically tracks locking operations
+ and detects potential deadlocks
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+ Now available as a userland library! Except we need to package
+ it (build from linux-tools source package)
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arm64 and ppc64el ports
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+ 'arm64' architecture was added in Linux 3.7, but was not yet
+ usable, and no real hardware was available at the time
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+ Upstream Linux arm64 kernel, and Debian packages, should now run
+ on emulators and real hardware
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+ 'powerpc' architecture has been available for many years,
+ but didn't support kernel running little-endian
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+ Linux 3.13 added little-endian kernel suport, along with new
+ userland ELF ABI variant - we call it ppc64el
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+ Both ports now being bootstrapped in unstable and are candidates
+ for jessie release
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Questions?