Bug 855923

Summary: Thunderbird freezes on Fedora 18 on PPC64
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold>
Component: thunderbirdAssignee: Jan Horak <jhorak>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 18CC: dan, gecko-bugs-nobody, gustavold, stransky
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Hardware: ppc64   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: thunderbird-15.0.1-3.fc19 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-09-18 10:29:23 UTC Type: Bug
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Do not decommit memory on PPC none

Description Gustavo Luiz Duarte 2012-09-10 15:49:00 UTC 
Description of problem:
Thunderbird freezes soon after launch on ppc64.
Thunderbird seems to be stuck, there is a LOT of messages in the strace like this:
madvise(0xfff99e98000, 4096, MADV_DONTNEED) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
thunderbird-15.0-2.fc18.ppc64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a mock env for Fedora 18 for PPC64
2. Install Thunderbird
3. Run Thunderbird

  
Actual results:
Thunderbird freezes after a few seconds (UI stops responding and/or updating)


Expected results:
Thunderbird UI should continue working.
Comment 1 Gustavo Luiz Duarte 2012-09-10 15:55:19 UTC 
Created attachment 611479 [details]
Do not decommit memory on PPC

Do not decommit memory on PPC since decommit logic assumes PageSize == ArenaSize. On PPC we have 64K page size, which is not feasible for ArenaSize. Rework of Martin's patch from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=746112

This patch should fix the freezes.
Comment 2 Dan Horák 2012-09-18 10:29:23 UTC 
all branches updated