[parisc-linux] itimer/ntpdate 64-bit patch
Richard Hirst
rhirst@linuxcare.com
Wed, 5 Dec 2001 21:52:49 +0000
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 11:31:02AM -0700, Paul Bame wrote:
>
> On Helge's suggestion I stopped freeing bootmem, and the problem
> no longer manifests. No more time to work on it. I won't commit
> the syscall wrapper patch for now.
I tried zero-ing bootmem instead of freeing it, in the hope that I'd
get a more useful crash if it tried to execute code there, but it
didn't fail. But then, I didn't try freeing bootmem with the itimer
wrapper, so maybe my box doesn't have the problem anyway.
Richard