[parisc-linux] [patch] handle pagefaults on unaligned access

[John David Anglin]

> while testing out gcj today, i was able to crash the machine
> consistently with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel. turns out our unaligned
> handler doesn't handle page faults properly. in the case for gcj, there
> was a ldh on the edge of the page, the first byte is on a resident page,
> the 2nd byte is on a faulting page.

What's generating the unaligned ldh?  This will really kill performance.
GCC shouldn't do this...

My system also crashed last night, probably running the gcj testsuite.

Dave
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