From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:32:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:32:09 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:8207 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 12 Apr 2001 11:32:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:31:53 +0100 From: Russell King To: Cyrille Ngalle Cc: nak@apfbioelectronics.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm@lists.arm.linux.org.uk Subject: Re: kernel crash Message-ID: <20010412163153.B23165@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Cyrille.Ngalle@smart-fusion.com on Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:16:33PM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 05:16:33PM +0200, Cyrille Ngalle wrote: > This is just to reinforce the message below. And why is it of interest to LKML? I can think if no one here who'd be interested in it. > This crash is ver easy to reproduce. > > Use bootldr (with the last patch from Nico) [it also happens with > Redboot] It is not a function of the bootloader, this is irrelevent. Also, I believe that the original posters message was an April Fool's joke (was posted on the 1st April to the linux-arm lists). However, the problem it describes is not, and I do have a fix in my tree, but the delta between my last patch and my current tree is one line, which hardly seems worth putting out a new ARM patch. --- linux.rel/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c Fri Apr 6 19:09:05 2001 +++ linux/arch/arm/mm/fault-armv.c Thu Apr 12 16:30:25 2001 @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ bad_or_fault: if (type == TYPE_ERROR) goto bad; - + regs->ARM_pc -= 4; /* * We got a fault - fix it up, or die. */ -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html