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From: David Daney <ddaney@avtrex.com>
To: Dave Johnson <djohnson+linux-mips@sw.starentnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: SMP+PREEMPT causes NULL dereference in khelper on startup
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:03:32 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45EC4D64.5050803@avtrex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17900.19125.660006.553487@zeus.sw.starentnetworks.com>

Dave Johnson wrote:
> Dave Johnson writes:
>> It appears a0 to detach_pid (*task) points to somewhere wrong as
>> 'link' (now in a1) is a valid pointer, but points to a bunch of
>> zeros.
> 
> I found the issue.  This appears to be a compiler bug in
> __unhash_process().

Perhaps you could tell us the compiler/binutils versions you are using.

It is not unheard of that compiler bugs get fixed.  So if the problem 
can still be reproduced with GCC 4.1 or 4.2, you could file a bug report 
here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/

Thanks,
David Daney

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-05 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-03 18:20 SMP+PREEMPT causes NULL dereference in khelper on startup Dave Johnson
2007-03-05 16:52 ` Dave Johnson
2007-03-05 17:03   ` David Daney [this message]
2007-03-05 18:18     ` Dave Johnson

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