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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Oops mystery
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 12:48:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130712164816.GE1020@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51E02545.7080106@opengridcomputing.com>

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:48:21AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
 
 > So 'movb   $0x0,0xe(%rax,%rdx,1)' should be storing 0 into the byte 
 > location:
 > 
 > %rax + 0xe + (%rdx * 1) ==
 > 0x40fc+ 0xe + 0xffff8808b5500000 ==
 > 0xffff8808b5540fce.
 > 
 > That address is readable in the crash dump:
 > 
 > crash> x/8b 0x0000000000040fc0+0xe+0xffff8808b5500000
 > 0xffff8808b5540fce:     0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00    0x00 0x00    
 > 0x00    0x00
 > 
 > And why does the page fault show 0x40fc0 as the faulting address?  It 
 > should be 0xffff8808b5540fce and it shouldn't have caused a page fault.
 > 
 > What am I missing?

Random guess: Is that page marked read-only perhaps ?

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-12 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-12 15:48 Oops mystery Steve Wise
2013-07-12 16:48 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-07-12 16:53   ` Steve Wise
2013-07-12 17:00     ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 17:08       ` Steve Wise
2013-07-12 17:14         ` Dave Jones
2013-07-12 19:24           ` Steve Wise

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