[parisc-linux] compiling kernels with gcc-3.1

[John David Anglin]

> in at least some of the cases, i've seen one CPU is processing an
> unaligned trap for a kernel space insn. i don't see how the particular
> pieces of code that's causing the trap are unaligned tho (eg.
> search_exception_table).
> 
> One thing about the unaligned handler is that it wlil fail silently
> while handling "non-trivial" load/store insns. For example, it doesn't
> handle the ma/mb or m/sm completors for displacement/indexed
> load/stores.

Is --disable-indexing used in kernel builds?  This should stop gcc
from generating the above.

Dave
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