[parisc-linux] evms-0.9.1 && hppa (follow ...)

[Grant Grundler]

"=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jo=EBl_Soete?=" wrote:
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> I am not quiet sure to be absolutely right but for a first test, I only
> change "user_parms->buffer_address" by "tmp.buffer_address"
> and the system does not anymore crashes:

Excellent. That was too easy.

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> As you can see it is not yes perfect because: "evms_vgscan(267): unaligned
> access to 0x00022efe at ip=3D0x40207d8f"

The kernel should be dealing with unaligned access - the msg is a
warning since it will have substantial performance impact.

> and also logs a lot of data page fault:

Yeah - gdb to debug those.

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> Humm ... have you an idea why this problem did not appears for this i386 or
> ppc (the two official supported till now)?

Dunno. Luck?
Those arches may not be as sensitive to address space issues.

welcome,
grant