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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
To: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Cc: willy@debian.org, carlos@baldric.uwo.ca,
	parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] malloc limits
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 16:33:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020921223352.C64324829@dsl2.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> of "Sat, 21 Sep 2002 01:24:54 EDT." <200209210524.g8L5OtNw006246@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>

"John David Anglin" wrote:
> It's the address of the next contiguous chunk.  This is roughly the sum
> of the address plus the size of the chunk to be freed.  The segv occurs
> loading the size of the next chunk using the address.

I'll assume this is happening on the A500 (PA2.0) and wonder if it's
a signed/unsigned bug. Look closely at how PA2.0 extends register
values and make sure code is treating addresses and sizes as unsigned.


> I haven't been successful debugging the code directly.  I can get the
> code to seg fault by setting SIG37 to nostop noprint, but the debugger
> seems to think the fault occurs following the INLINE_SYSCALL in
> __sigsuspend.  However, the address points to an ldi instruction
> which can't seg fault, so I don't know what's up.

Not all instructions trap precisely. FP ops definitely do not and
I thought a few others didn't either.

I'm wondering what happens when unaligned access should segfault.
Does the unaligned code handle check for that?
I'll take a quick look at that code path.


thanks,
grant

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-21 22:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200209190805.KAA0000032531@simba.sch.bme.hu>
2002-09-19  9:17 ` [parisc-linux] SMP kernel problems on a D350 Istvan Gyenes
2002-09-19 12:21   ` J.Steindlberger
2002-09-19 12:29     ` Ryan Bradetich
2002-09-19 22:46   ` Grant Grundler
2002-09-20  8:28     ` Istvan Gyenes
2002-09-20 19:48       ` Carlos O'Donell
2002-09-20 20:02         ` Jeremy Drake
2002-09-20 20:37           ` Carlos O'Donell
2002-09-20 20:46             ` John David Anglin
2002-09-20 20:50               ` Randolph Chung
2002-09-20 20:55                 ` Carlos O'Donell
2002-09-21 23:20                   ` Randolph Chung
2002-09-22  0:57                     ` Grant Grundler
2002-09-20 20:55                 ` John David Anglin
2002-09-20 21:51                   ` Randolph Chung
2002-09-21  3:38             ` [parisc-linux] malloc limits John David Anglin
2002-09-21  4:14               ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-21  4:46                 ` Grant Grundler
2002-09-21  5:24                   ` John David Anglin
2002-09-21 22:33                     ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2002-09-22  5:43                       ` John David Anglin
2002-09-20 20:37           ` [parisc-linux] SMP kernel problems on a D350 Bdale Garbee
2002-09-20 20:52             ` Carlos O'Donell
2002-09-20 23:11             ` Jeremy Drake
2002-09-20 23:46               ` Jeremy Drake
2002-09-20 23:55               ` Robert Stanford
2002-09-21  4:31       ` Grant Grundler

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