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From: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Uncompressing broken with commit e7db7b4270
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:16:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100129151616.GA17299@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100129150345.GA5876@laptop>

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 04:04:15PM +0100, Albin Tonnerre wrote:
> If so, the decompressor would exit with an error message stating that it can't
> allocate enough memory, so I doubt this is the cause.
> 
> However, I have to admit I have no clue as to why Catalin is experiencing this.
> Maybe you could check if your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_ALIGNMENT_TRAP, and
> try setting it if it's unset, just to make sure it does not try to read
> something unaligned?

Alignment faults can't be handled in the decompressor; we have no
reliable way to setup the machine vectors at such an early stage to
trap any exceptions.

> Anyway... Russell, would you have any hint?

Absolutely none.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-29 15:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-28 17:03 Uncompressing broken with commit e7db7b4270 Catalin Marinas
2010-01-29 14:46 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-01-29 15:04   ` Albin Tonnerre
2010-01-29 15:14     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-01-29 15:29       ` Albin Tonnerre
2010-01-29 15:16     ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2010-01-29 16:12 ` Colin Tuckley
2010-01-29 21:13   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-02  9:01   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-02  9:07     ` Colin Tuckley
2010-02-02  9:55       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-02 10:19         ` Catalin Marinas
2010-02-03  9:41           ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-19 14:21             ` Uwe Kleine-König
2010-02-19 15:27               ` Catalin Marinas
2010-02-01 22:56 ` Albin Tonnerre
2010-02-02  8:44   ` Uwe Kleine-König

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