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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:12:09 +1000
From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: alignment exceptionhandler sleeps in invalid context
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Olaf Hering writes:

> I'm not sure where the bug is. Does it mean the network stack does
> something nasty, or is the exception handler itself broken? (probably the latter)
> This is 2.6.16.9 on a p270.

The alignment handler does a get_user to read the instruction.  I
suppose it will have to read the instruction directly if the exception
occurred in kernel mode.

Paul.