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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Paul.Mackerras@cs.anu.edu.au
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Vger broken w.r.t. gdb
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 01:18:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990730011819.A364@them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199907290548.PAA02760@tango.anu.edu.au>; from Paul Mackerras on Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 03:48:59PM +1000


On Thu, Jul 29, 1999 at 03:48:59PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> 
> > So my question is, what is at 0x3000c1a8?  It would appear, if I am not
> > misreading binfmt_elf.c, to be the program itself in its original
> > mmap'd location.  I'm not at all confident of that conclusion, though.
> 
> Cat /proc/<pid>/maps while you have the ls process stopped at an
> appropriate point.
> 
> > So regs->msr is actually from SRR1 of the running program?  Does it
> > generally get stuffed back into the MSR when that task is running?
> 
> Yep, but the high bits get ignored.

Now I'm really confused.

>From my readings it appears that we should only reach this point if a
trap instruction was encountered.  But from what I can see no trap
instruction exists at that address.  At
<http://www.them.org/~drow/check-core> is a core dump I obtained while
my system was in this confusing state; check-test in the same directory
is the program responsible.  The instruction appears to be in
_dl_debug_state from what I can tell, but no trap instruction was
present there.

Perhaps something having to do with instruction caching by the
processor?  This is a completely wild guess, but if a trap instruction
was encountered, and then gdb cleared it, and the instruction cache was
not flushed...

Dan

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  reply	other threads:[~1999-07-30  5:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-07-29  2:26 Vger broken w.r.t. gdb Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-07-29  4:00 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-07-29  5:38   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-07-29  5:48     ` Paul Mackerras
1999-07-30  5:18       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
1999-07-30  5:24         ` Paul Mackerras
1999-07-30  6:03           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-07-30  7:07           ` nasty powerpc mmap problems (was: Re: Vger broken w.r.t. gdb) Daniel Jacobowitz
1999-08-02  2:45             ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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