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- 1 - 1. _P_a_t_c_h__S_G_0_0_0_1_9_9_0__R_e_l_e_a_s_e__N_o_t_e This release note describes patch SG0001990 to IRIX 6.2. Patch SG0001990 replaces patches SG0001717, SG0001733, SG0001650, SG0001624, SG0001622, SG0001569, SG0001488, SG0001534, SG0001493, SG0001429, SG0001389, SG0001353, SG0001323, SG0001243 and SG0001222. 1.1 _S_u_p_p_o_r_t_e_d__H_a_r_d_w_a_r_e__P_l_a_t_f_o_r_m_s This patch contains bug fixes for all SGI systems supported in IRIX 6.2. 1.2 _S_u_p_p_o_r_t_e_d__S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e__P_l_a_t_f_o_r_m_s This patch contains bug fixes for IRIX 6.2 (version 1232792137) and IRIX 6.2 with Indigo2 IMPACT 10000 (version 1233007732). The software cannot be installed on other configurations. 1.3 _B_u_g_s__F_i_x_e_d__b_y__P_a_t_c_h__S_G_0_0_0_1_9_9_0 This patch contains fixes for the following bugs in IRIX 6.2. Bug numbers from Silicon Graphics bug tracking system are included for reference. For bugs fixed in prior patches, fix descriptions are grouped under the replaced patches. +o Bug #470926 : All pthreads in a pthread program did not share the posix timer ids. With this patch all pthreads share the timerid name space. +o Bug #421932 : Calling suser form interrupt causes <0>PANIC: CPU 0: vfault: curproc is NULL. CAP_ABLE was being used to check credential of process. Problem is that action could be the result of a STREAMS service routine and there is either no process or the process is not the one who made the request. +o Bug #439590 : streams perf problem. spinunlock_qmonitor uses the timeout thread to execute deferred monitor requests on the global monitor. This introduces excessive latency. This is replaced by a pool of kernel threads. Note this patch disables the systune "monqtimeout" parameter. +o Bug #465038 : Bug #470796 : For IP25 systems only, fixed a graphics performance problem introduced as a side effect of another bug fix. - 2 - +o Bug #469770 : This is a fix for an R4000/R4400 chip bug. The chip bug went as follows: In the tlbmiss refill handler, we had the C0_WRITER opcode in the delay slot of a branch instruction. That branch/WRITER pair was near the end of the icache line. Suppose that there is a C0_READI hanging out in the icache, and that READI happens to be in the first word of the next line of the icache. The R4000/4400 starts the READI down the pipeline before it realizes that it is actually a cache miss, but apparently some processor state is not properly restored when the READI is killed. This leads to a processor hang. +o Bug #478104 : Software should set 90 Mhz IP21 cpus boards to low 3V for better HW margins. +o Bug #479714 : This is a bug where nanosleep remainders were a factor of 10 too big on IP22, IP26 and IP28 when the process has real time priority. +o Bug #480136 : This is a fix where EPERM somtimes would be incorrectly returned as an error for the nanosleep system call. +o Bug #483943 : This patch adds a common API for MIPS ABI applications to support licensing requirements. The command _MIPS_SI_SERIAL is added to sysinfo() to return a unique hardware serial number. See "sys/systeminfo.h" for the definition of _MIPS_SI_SERIAL. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001717: +o Bug #372937 : Enabled macro names for reader/writer lock operations such as RW_LOCK in usr/include/sys/ksynch.h. +o Bug #405092 : For IP21 systems only, include the missing vmeuli.o binary. +o Bug #450840 : For IP25, serialize config writes/intrs to avoid a potential hardware deadlock. +o Bug #453979 : For IP25, turn off piggyback reads to avoid a potential hardware hang. +o Bug #455481 : For Challenge (EVEREST) systems, increased the dang chip timeout since it was too small. +o Bug #457843 : For IP21 systems only, correct a kernel fault in the ULI_wakeup library call. - 3 - +o Bug #465061 : Passing bogus values into sprofil() could panic kernel. +o Bug #465063 : Possible kernel panic when using WorkShop's "Step Over" function on a pthreads application. +o Bug #469254 : For EVEREST systems, stop all cpus before reading MC3 Config Registers to avoid a potential hang. +o Bug #470333 : One case of unique id (uuid) comparison in the kernel was incorrect; also the error codes returned for different flavors of invalid uuids were not in compliance with the DCE specification. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001733: +o Bug #451134 : For Challenge (EVEREST) systems, use uncached reads to synchronize between cpus and io instead of config read of an A-chip reg. This fixes a hardware deadlock. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001650: +o Bug #412011 : Fixes bug which amongst other things would result in error messages like "preg_color_validation: virtual color mismatch" when running some N32 applications on earlier revisions of the R5000 CPU. +o Bug #425381 : Fixes a very slow kernel page leak which occurs when running N32 applications on earlier revisions of the R5000 CPU which require the workaround for the cvt instruction. +o Bug #433639 : If the clock crystal is off a little bit (either inherently slightly off speed or due to temperature), an Indy may be confused about whether it has a 175Mhz (R4400) or 180Mhz (R5000) processor. This could lead to incorrect output from hinv, the system clock may run inaccurately, etc. +o Bug #443076 : The newarraysess(2) system call was unnecessarily restricted to the superuser. Any user may now execute the newarraysess system call, although superuser privileges are still needed to actually modify the array session handle. +o Bug #445198 : Update memory system support for on the Indigo2 10000 for systems with two or three memory - 4 - banks that include one bank of 64MB SIMMs (256MB upgrade). Affected configurations cannot use the kernel debugger, symmon with this change, until the next major IRIX release. +o Bug #447743 : Truncate system calls to files in XFS filesystems did not check for write permission correctly. A current XFS kernel patch is also required for the complete fix to this problem. +o Bug #448015 : For IP25 systems only, this fixes a panic introduced in patch1624 in mc3 error logging code. +o Bug #448859 : The uuid routines were not checking for illegal uuid variants. The changes here affect only kernel users of the uuid routines. The fix for programs that use the uuid(3) routines is in libc in rollup patch 1571 (and its successors). +o Bug #450581 : For IP25 systems only, this fixes a panic introduced in patch1624 in io4 error clearing code. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001624: +o Bug #310210, #373477, #391065, #430303 : Fix panics in audit system. +o Bug #345536 : The kernel open file offset pointer was not always managed correctly. This could happen when simultaneous or overlapping read or write operations were made to a user file descriptor that was being shared (either parent and child process sharing file descriptors or an sproc(2) group created with the PR_SFDS or PR_SALL attributes). +o Bug #480640 : A pthread that blocked a particular signal then attempted to wait for the signal via sigwait(3) or sigtimedwait(3) would not be notified of the signal's delivery. +o Bug #358103 : par command has partial write problem when timer goes off and interrupts the write. +o Bug #358534 : The syssgi() call for SGI_DBA_CONFIG was not correctly returning the current parameters for kernel async I/O. This fix corrects that problem. +o Bug #358539 : A performance enhancement for disk I/O was inadvertently removed from the 6.2 release. This - 5 - fix reinstates that enhancement. +o Bug #360218 : IRIX 6.2 is now Posix 1003.1b compliant. Kernel support for Posix: message passing, process memory locking, real-time scheduling, semaphores, and timers has been added. +o Bug #381260 : Direct I/O read on IP28 needs R10000 speculative execution workaround. +o Bug #383918 : Partial support for the server side of the Bulk Data Service. +o Bug #388860 : Fixes the shmctl hang that occurs when an invalid shared memory segment is specified for removal. +o Bug #418568 : This fixes a scip code panic for IP19 and IP25 systems. The code makes sure that PIOWRITES are flushed out to IO in the right sequence. Fixed this bug for R8k Power Challenges (IP21) as well. +o Bug #418570 : For IP25 only, this code is a workaround for an R10000 LL/SC bug. +o Bug #423671 : Temp. fix to get around the known sat (system audit trail) subsytem bug which panics the kernel. This change excludes sat. If reqd., sat needs to be included explicitly after the patch is installed. +o Bug #423676 : Adds missing file offset mutex constructors and destructors. +o Bug #423841 : User called cacheflush fixed for R10000 based Challenge/POWER Challange. +o Bug #428281 : If a program using kernel async I/O placed an aio request block at an address higher than 0xffffffff, only the lower 32 bits of the pointer would be used. With this fix, programs may safely place request blocks anywhere in the virtual address space. +o Bug #428472 : Fixed a case for R10000 based systems, where a bad user address passed as an argument to syscall would panic the system. +o Bug #429948 : Fixes accuracy of POSIX timers using absolute time on an Indy. +o Bug #431097 : Fixes return values for rtlocks. - 6 - +o Bug #431100 : Fixes the NFS nanosleep interface, returning the proper time remainder when interrupted. +o Bug #433007 : Fixes cachectl system call. +o Bug #434065 : Fix problem which tends to show up on small processor count MP systems when a job uses an SPROC group and kernel asynch I/O. When one of the processes belonging to the group exits while another process is actively using kaio, the exiting process may hang the processor.Wq +o Bug #434940 : Clear IO4 error state caused by R10000 speculation which may result in misleading FRU analysis. +o Bug #439394 : real-time jitter problem when accessing /proc. Real time processes handling SIGALRM signals generated by interval timers experience occasional delays when being accessed through /proc. The jitter is removed as long as /proc access is read-only and process has no watchpoints. +o Bug #439590 : streams perf problem. Added a tuneable parameter, monqtimeout, that can be adjusted by systune(1m) to alter the timeout between a streams_interrupt() call and the processing of any deferred streams requests. The default value is 2 ticks (previous value). The allowed values for "monqtimeout" are 0, 1, 2. Lower values will decrease the latency and thus improve streams performance for streams networking using the global streams monitor. +o Bug #442793 : Use cache aliasing and duplicate cache tag writes instead of secondary cache ops on IP25 systems for SBE and cache error recovery. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001569: +o Bug #414116 : This patch has a code modification to avoid a known hardware bug for the Challenge/POWER Challenge/Onyx platforms with R4400 and R10000 processor. +o Bug #417299 : IP22 only: system hangs while performing network-intensive operations. The mouse cursor doesn't move, no crash dump is produced, the power button doesn't work; a ``paperclip reset'' is required. +o Bug #419742 : This patch fixes a bug in the performance monitoring code for the R10000. - 7 - +o Bug #435141 : Put in validity checks for user-passed arguments for setitimer/getitimer calls. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001488: +o Bug #290185 : Fixes stack underflow/overflow crash that occurs during branch at end of page correction. +o Bug #348498 : Allow system dumps to be directed to /dev/dump instead of default swap device if /dev/dump exists. If /dev/dump does not exist, then /dev/swap will be used as before. +o Bug #396013 : Minor tuneup and optimization of the low level interrupt handling code for IP19 and IP25 platforms. +o Bug #399759 : Calls to rename() for files in loopback filesystems were failing. +o Bug #404913 : Kernel could lock up in an endless loop in code which handles shared text pages modified for processor-specific workarounds. +o Bug #404995 : Guard against negative and other illegal process group IDs in function BSDsetpgrp(). Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001534: +o Bug #397611 : For IP25 only, this fix is to prevent system hardware deadlock which results in a IO4 EBUS_TIMEOUT error. +o Bug #399891 : For IP25 only, this fix is to prevent Mbuf corruption seen in ipg code. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001429: +o Bug #254494 : The readv() and writev() system calls could not be used in conjunction with direct I/O. +o Bug #371229 : The /var/sysgen/Makefile.kernio supplied with 6.2 did not have the compile options for the IP25. This patch supplies a new version of the file with the IP25 compile options specified. +o Bug #383422 : R10K perf counters bug where if the user was getting a signal on overflow, then the counts were inexact. - 8 - +o Bug #384003 : libfpe on R8K loops on an FPE when used with SpeedShop. +o Bug #385308 : R10K perf counters bug where the counters weren't read from the appropriate cpu. +o Bug #391815 IP28 system ECC error handler fix. A missing label could cause the ECC error handler on IP28 systems to fail in random ways. +o Bug #395329 : Add support for Indigo2 IMPACT 10000 (IP28) to kernel rollup. +o Bug #400456 : R10K Cache error recovery code for primary data cache and secondary cache errors could incorrectly invalidate a dirty line under some circumstances. +o Bug #403192 : Applications using large Shared Memory segments (greater than 500 Megs) can cause kernel virtual memory to be exhausted. This happens when a lot of independent processes (hundreds) are attaching to the same SHM segment. On large configurations, several Relational Databases may exhibit this behavior. If the kernel virtual memory becomes exhausted the system appears unable to perform any work and a reboot is necessary. This patch fixes this problem, by allowing independent processes to share the kernel data structures that describe their address space. These data structures are called Page Tables and contain information about the virtual to physical address translation. For instance let's assume that a SHM segment has size 750 Megabytes and 500 processes are attached to it. With private Page Tables IRIX uses 375 Megabytes of Kernel Memory. With shared Page Table IRIX uses 750 Kilobytes. Another big benefit of sharing Page Table is speed. In fact any new process attaching to the SHM segment benefits from the page faulting activity performed by other attached processes. This dramatically reduces the number of page faults and makes a great difference in the overall performance. This patch is highly recommended for installation running large Oracle Data Bases. Processes that want to make use of this feature should specify a special flags when calling _s_h_m_a_t. This option is only available if both the attaching address and the size of the SHM segment satisfy appropriate restrictions. See _s_h_m_a_t(2) for detailed information. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001389: - 9 - +o Bug #313568 : The kernel did not contain certain performance enhancements which are need for a future release of SoftWindows. +o Bug #357358 : Access to XFS file systems could hang under load from a large number of processes. The portion of this bug fix requiring changes to generic kernel subsystems is included in this patch. The other portion of the fix is in the XFS rollup patch. +o Bug #373353 : The shaked system daemon would sometimes appear to run out of control when the available memory in the system ran low. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001353: +o Bug #359208 : Some multiple IO4 IP21 systems experience g-cache errors upon upgrading to 6.2. The software workaround for 323277 uncovers another hardware problem with the IP21 cpu which causes those cpus to report g-cache parity errors. The fix contained in this patch either eliminates or dramatically reduces the rate of occurrence of this g- cache problem. Also fixes bug in workaround for 323277 which could occur on IP21 systems with more than 4 GB of physical memory. +o Bug #370236 : statfs fails for nfs mount points if the backing filesystem is loopback mounted on the server, as is the case with ISO9660 and DOS file systems. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001323: +o Bug #375618 : The R5000 Rev. 1.1 processor sometimes executes cvt.d.l and cvt.s.l incorrectly. +o Bug #379617 : The initial workaround for the R5000 Rev. 1.1 problem in regard a load or store in the delay slot of a branch at the end of an odd page introduced more system overhead than was necessary. This patch makes the overhead negligible. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001243: +o Bug #362736 : A chip bug cause my ebus data error on IP25. Bugs fixed in Patch SG0001222: +o Bug #354768 : If the syssgi call for T5 counter profiling is made on an R4K machine, the call generates - 10 - a signal, rather than just returning an error. For consistency with other calls, it should just return an error (ENODEV seems reasonable). The current behavior is not how the man page reads. +o Bug #363194 : User level VME probe operations that failed would cause panic. This occurs on IP25 only. +o Bug #365043 : File system ``unique universal identifiers'' (UUIDs) were not always unique. This could cause problems in XFS and XLV. +o Bug #366384 : This bug would cause the prda to become corrupted on machines using the R4600 processor. +o Bug #376366 : Logged but undisplayed recoverable cache errors were not printed on system panic. This problem occurs on IP25 only. +o Bug #417900 : Fixed bug where sproc'ed processes may see kernel Instruction Bus Error panics with some kernels, depending on how they were linked. This problem occured on IMPACT 10000 (IP28) only. 1.4 _S_u_b_s_y_s_t_e_m_s__I_n_c_l_u_d_e_d__i_n__P_a_t_c_h__S_G_0_0_0_1_9_9_0 This patch release includes these subsystems: +o patchSG0001990.dev_man.irix_lib +o patchSG0001990.eoe_hdr.lib +o patchSG0001990.eoe_sw.kdebug +o patchSG0001990.eoe_sw.perf +o patchSG0001990.eoe_sw.unix +o patchSG0001990.nfs_sw.dskless_client 1.5 _I_n_s_t_a_l_l_a_t_i_o_n__I_n_s_t_r_u_c_t_i_o_n_s Because you want to install only the patches for problems you have encountered, patch software is not installed by default. After reading the descriptions of the bugs fixed in this patch (see Section 1.3), determine the patches that meet your specific needs. If, after reading Sections 1.1 and 1.2 of these release notes, you are unsure whether your hardware and software - 11 - meet the requirements for installing a particular patch, run _i_n_s_t. The _i_n_s_t program does not allow you to install patches that are incompatible with your hardware or software. Patch software is installed like any other Silicon Graphics software product. Follow the instructions in your _S_o_f_t_w_a_r_e _I_n_s_t_a_l_l_a_t_i_o_n _A_d_m_i_n_i_s_t_r_a_t_o_r'_s _G_u_i_d_e to bring up the miniroot form of the software installation tools. Follow these steps to select a patch for installation: 1. At the Inst> prompt, type iiiinnnnssssttttaaaallllllll ppppaaaattttcccchhhhSSSSGGGG_x_x_x_x_x_x_x where _x_x_x_x_x_x_x is the patch number. 2. Initiate the installation sequence. Type IIIInnnnsssstttt>>>> ggggoooo 3. You may find that two patches have been marked as incompatible. (The installation tools reject an installation request if an incompatibility is detected.) If this occurs, you must deselect one of the patches. IIIInnnnsssstttt>>>> kkkkeeeeeeeepppp ppppaaaattttcccchhhhSSSSGGGG_x_x_x_x_x_x_x where _x_x_x_x_x_x_x is the patch number. 4. After completing the installation process, exit the _i_n_s_t program by typing IIIInnnnsssstttt>>>> qqqquuuuiiiitttt 1.6 _P_a_t_c_h__R_e_m_o_v_a_l__I_n_s_t_r_u_c_t_i_o_n_s To remove a patch, use the _v_e_r_s_i_o_n_s _r_e_m_o_v_e command as you would for any other software subsystem. The removal process reinstates the original version of software unless you have specifically removed the patch history from your system. vvvveeeerrrrssssiiiioooonnnnssss rrrreeeemmmmoooovvvveeee ppppaaaattttcccchhhhSSSSGGGG_x_x_x_x_x_x_x where _x_x_x_x_x_x_x is the patch number. - 12 - To keep a patch but increase your disk space, use the _v_e_r_s_i_o_n_s _r_e_m_o_v_e_h_i_s_t command to remove the patch history. vvvveeeerrrrssssiiiioooonnnnssss rrrreeeemmmmoooovvvveeeehhhhiiiisssstttt ppppaaaattttcccchhhhSSSSGGGG_x_x_x_x_x_x_x where _x_x_x_x_x_x_x is the patch number. 1.7 _K_n_o_w_n__P_r_o_b_l_e_m_s Heavy usage of streams can exacerbate the occurrence of bug#454086, setpgid child: Error reported when using pipes on the command. patch #1760 can be installed to alleviate the problem.