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From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: Paul Bame <bame@riverrock.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org, bame@www.riverrock.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] itimer/ntpdate 64-bit patch
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:52:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011205215249.B10229@linuxcare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m16Bgow-000OucC@bame.riverrock.org>; from bame@riverrock.org on Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:02AM -0700

On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:02AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote:
> 
> On Helge's suggestion I stopped freeing bootmem, and the problem
> no longer manifests.  No more time to work on it.  I won't commit
> the syscall wrapper patch for now.

I tried zero-ing bootmem instead of freeing it, in the hope that I'd
get a more useful crash if it tried to execute code there, but it
didn't fail.  But then, I didn't try freeing bootmem with the itimer
wrapper, so maybe my box doesn't have the problem anyway.

Richard

      reply	other threads:[~2001-12-05 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-05 17:58 [parisc-linux] itimer/ntpdate 64-bit patch bame
2001-12-05 18:31 ` Paul Bame
2001-12-05 21:52   ` Richard Hirst [this message]

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