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From: grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com (Grant Grundler)
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] 2.5 randomly kills applications with page faults
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:37:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021220223747.GD13478@dsl2.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212202212.gBKMCbv08741@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 04:12:37PM -0600, James Bottomley wrote:
> The fix is simple: increment the stack pointer.  I chose 16 to preserve every 
> alignment I can think of is that also safe for 64 bit?

needs to be 64 bytes - lamont confirmed.

> With this fix, my system seems fairly solid.  It survives my bitkeeper and 
> stress tests so far (about 30 min) previously it always collapsed within
> a few minutes.

excellent!

> P.S. After this little debug frenzy, I don't personally care if I ever see 
> another line of parisc assembly again, so if another obscure register
> trashing problem turns up, my good deed is done...

*G*
/me kowtows to the east several times...


>  	STREG	%r1,0(%r30)			/* Stick r1 (usp) here for now */
> +	ldo	16(%r30),%r30

As David observed, this wants to use ",ma" and I'll work that out with
lamont/helge offline.
Something will get committed to 2.4.x/2.5.x trees this afternoon.

thanks - what a wonderful Christmas present! :^)

grant

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-12-20 22:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-18 16:37 [parisc-linux] 2.5 randomly kills applications with page faults James Bottomley
2002-12-18 17:02 ` Randolph Chung
2002-12-20 22:12   ` James Bottomley
2002-12-20 22:19     ` John David Anglin
2002-12-20 22:37     ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2002-12-22  7:11       ` Grant Grundler
2002-12-22 10:17         ` Helge Deller
2002-12-22 16:35         ` James Bottomley
2002-12-21  1:38     ` Grant Grundler
2002-12-21  1:46       ` James Bottomley
2002-12-21  4:34         ` Grant Grundler
2002-12-21  5:03           ` James Bottomley

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