arm64 fork/swap data corruptions: A ~110 line C program demonstrating an example (Pine64+ 2GB context) [Corrected subject: arm64!]

[Bernd Walter]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 03:28:53PM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
> [test_check() between the fork and the wait/sleep prevents the
> failure from occurring. Even a small access to the memory at
> that stage prevents the failure. Details follow.]

Maybe a stupid question, since you might have written it somewhere.
What medium do you swap to?
I've seen broken firmware on microSD cards doing silent data
corruption for some access patterns.

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