From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from rhirst.linuxcare.com (pc2-hems4-0-cust100.bre.cable.ntl.com [213.107.176.100]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC924482C for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 14:52:33 -0700 (MST) Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501) id E3716B00C; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:52:49 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:52:49 +0000 From: Richard Hirst To: Paul Bame Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, bame@www.riverrock.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] itimer/ntpdate 64-bit patch Message-ID: <20011205215249.B10229@linuxcare.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from bame@riverrock.org on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:02AM -0700 Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:02AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote: > > On Helge's suggestion I stopped freeing bootmem, and the problem > no longer manifests. No more time to work on it. I won't commit > the syscall wrapper patch for now. I tried zero-ing bootmem instead of freeing it, in the hope that I'd get a more useful crash if it tried to execute code there, but it didn't fail. But then, I didn't try freeing bootmem with the itimer wrapper, so maybe my box doesn't have the problem anyway. Richard