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From: Randolph Chung <randolph@tausq.org>
To: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org
Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: Need help writing register consistency test?
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:26:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040916192641.GG28659@tausq.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200409161919.i8GJJk7v007348@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>

> I'm not sure that this is a syscall problem although it might be.  There
> weren't any syscalls between the load for r3 and when it was used as far
> as I can tell.  So, if this is a syscall problem, it would have to be a
> syscall that was done in a signal handler.  The difficulty in writing
> a program such as that suggested above is that it has to somehow test
> all the return paths in the kernel for each syscall.

yeah, possibly it's something in one of the interruption paths.

Dave, do you have any comments on this:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-ia64&m=109507921717647&w=2

do you think this could be causing problems for us too? (do you do any
stracing/gdb during your tests?)

randolph
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Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-16 19:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2004-09-16 19:19 ` [parisc-linux] Re: Need help writing register consistency test? John David Anglin
2004-09-16 19:26   ` Randolph Chung [this message]
2004-09-16 20:11     ` John David Anglin

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