Re: 2.4.19 OOPS [Repost]

From: lists@corewars.org
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 06:48:00 EST


Hm, actually I am.

And from the oops traces, the offending intruction always seems to be a
pop.

I'll upgrade and try again.

Thanks,
Sapan

On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 06:48:16PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 18:16, lists@corewars.org wrote:
> > Just in case this might shed some more light on the problem...
> > I recompiled the kernel with frame pointers about a week ago, and I
> > didn't face a single oops till today morning, when I recompiled the
> > kernel without frame-pointers and I've been getting the same
> > oopses all day.
> >
>
> Are you using gcc 3.0.x or an early gcc 3.1.x. There are bugs in those
> where they write below the stack pointer which means an IRQ will corrupt
> stuff. Turning on frame pointers might well hide this
>
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