From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (fep01-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com [66.185.86.71]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A2248AF for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:14:51 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:15:09 -0500 From: Carlos O'Donell To: John David Anglin Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] kernel BUG at mm/shmem.c:585! Message-ID: <20040126021508.GZ1060@baldric.uwo.ca> References: <20040123142426.GE4571@baldric.uwo.ca> <200401231940.i0NJeSJJ004756@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <200401231940.i0NJeSJJ004756@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 02:40:27PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote: > > It appears non-fatal, and I want to blame the compiler :) > > I agree but the proof is in the pudding ;-) I told Grant, that at my current schedule, it would be 2006 before I fixed this problem :) It looks like a reordering issue, perhaps taking a look at the respective .o objects produced by the two compilers might reveal the issue. I think that's the way we did it when the tty layer broke and we had to have that console.o compiled with 3.0.4 by hand? I think Randolph and Grant worked on that together. I might have the wrong names, but we've successfully debugged a problem like this before using similar methods. c.