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From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: kernel oops due to unaligned access with lswi
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 22:45:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FB7FE13.9060500@jonmasters.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031116221932.GD14287@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>



Alan Modra wrote:

| On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:49:32AM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
|
|>If Ben's comments are correct simply removing -mstring as an option
|>passed to the build should get the desired behavior.
|
|
| Yes.  I can't see any problem with gcc's behaviour here, and I'm
| surprised that some processor is taking alignment exceptions on lswi.

The 601 reputedly broke a number of the PowerPC specifications however
so I am not surprised if it has this problem - the trouble is you can
fix up the alignment exception handler in Linux but not the firmware
handlers being used prior to that. Anyway people suggested workarounds.

Jon.


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-16 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-15 21:04 kernel oops due to unaligned access with lswi Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:24 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:30   ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-15 22:37     ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:43     ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-15 22:59       ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-16 10:17         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-16 17:49           ` Kumar Gala
2003-11-16 22:19             ` Alan Modra
2003-11-16 22:45               ` Jon Masters [this message]
2003-11-17  0:50               ` Paul Mackerras
2003-11-17  7:55                 ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-16 23:12             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-16 23:31               ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-17  9:19                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-11-16 23:04           ` David Edelsohn
2003-11-17  0:40             ` Paul Mackerras
2003-11-19 21:51             ` linas
2003-11-19 22:06               ` Hollis Blanchard
2003-11-19 22:50                 ` linas
2003-11-16  0:40 ` Paul Mackerras
2003-11-16  1:45   ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-16 16:49     ` Olaf Hering
2003-11-16  5:07   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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