Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 7 Aug 2004 11:49:32 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Possible dcache BUG |
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On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > > Well then, maybe you'd like more? I attached two more from the same > period. Please remember that these are 5 months old, and could > represent bugs already fixed. I think this was stock 2.6.4.
These look like total memory corruption, they don't look anything like the prune_dcache things.
> Perhaps due to CONFIG_REGPARM? I haven't used it for quite a while, but > back in March I was a bit bolder about config options marked > experimental.
Entirely possible. gcc has historically had bugs in regparm (extra register pressure causing incorrect register re-use). It's supposed to be fixed in gcc-3+
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