Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:43:34 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Dyck <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre5 mount: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtualaddress |
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On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Brian Gerst wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, David Dyck wrote: > > > > > I am getting a repeatable oops during the boot up phase, > > > with linux 2.4.0 test10-pre4 > > I know what your problem is now: > > > > Gnu C 2.7.2.3 > > GCC 2.7.2.3 miscompiles the kernel_module structure. Since this is > where the exception table pointers are stored in a modular kernel, the > page fault handler was failing to find the exception handler and causing > an oops.
Thanks Brian, I finally got around to updating the compiler, and this did fix the problem
My thanks also to Barry for posting the patch to Documentation/Changes
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