From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Chapman Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 05:47:11 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] sigaltstack and RBS Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 09:27:54PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > > It sounds like you're using an old kernel. Sorry, I should have given more information. I'm using 2.5.59-ia64-030124. > I don't recall exactly > when this was fixed, but recent kernels will put the dirty partition > on the _new_ stack, not the old one. > > You can check gate.S:ia64_sigtramp(). If it branches to "setup_rbs" > _before_ the first "alloc" instruction, you should be fine. Yes, it does. Hmm, the faults I'm getting are at ia64_sigtramp (exactly). The first instruction (add r2@,r12) doesn't look like it could possibly be the cause, so I presume it is the RFI that is forcing a frame to be loaded (?). Matt