Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 07 May 2001 18:52:49 +0100 | | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | | Subject | RE: [PATCH] x86 page fault handler not interrupt safe |
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At 18:32 07/05/2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > From: David Woodhouse [mailto:dwmw2@infradead.org] > > > > torvalds@transmeta.com said: > > > If anybody has such a beast, please try this kernel patch _and_ > > > running the F0 0F bug-producing program (search for it on the 'net - > > > it must be out there somewhere) to verify that the code still > > > correctly handles that case. > > > > Something along the lines of: > > > > echo "unsigned long main=0xf00fc7c8;" > f00fbug.c ; make f00fbug > >Yes, that's what the (SGI) program uses: >http://lwn.net/2001/0329/a/ltp-f00f.php3
That's not quite what they do. David's SGI equivalent would be:
echo "unsigned long main=0xc8c70ff0;" > f00fbug.c ; make f00fbug i.e. remember that ia32 is little endian.
Thanks for the link.
Best regards,
Anton
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