From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 00:59:49 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.11-rc3-bk4] Correctly dereference ia64_mca_data Message-Id: <20050209005949.GD22678@esmail.cup.hp.com> List-Id: References: <23464.1107851114@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <23464.1107851114@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 03:45:25PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > 2) I saw one user process failure ... while stressing the system with a > "make -j16" kernel build, one of the complilations error'd out with a > bizarre internal gcc error. So possibly a register was corrupted??? Likely yes. That's one of two errors I see on parisc-linux when a register is corrupted (segfaults are the symptom). And unfortunately the context switching has a corner case the tickles that bug on a regular basis. :^( hth, grant