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

[Peter Maydell]

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" :-)

thanks
-- PMM