From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Randolph Chung Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: Need help writing register consistency test? Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:26:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20040916192641.GG28659@tausq.org> References: <20040916172131.GF28936@baldric.uwo.ca> <200409161919.i8GJJk7v007348@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> Reply-To: Randolph Chung Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org To: John David Anglin Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <200409161919.i8GJJk7v007348@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: parisc-linux-bounces@lists.parisc-linux.org > 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 -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/ _______________________________________________ parisc-linux mailing list parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux