* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:31:47 PST, Roland McGrath said: > > > thanks, applied. Does this explain the crash/hang problems with 32-bit > > > apps on 64-bit kernels? What was the exact failure mode? > > > > It does. Any 32-bit process trying to run a signal handler when it had > > used the FPU, would clobber "current" with FP bits. The observed failure > > mode was shortly after this in the signal handler setup code, when it > > crashed due to current->mm being zero (current->pid also being zero, and > > the whole first 512 bytes of the task_struct being garbage). > > For what it's worth, this patch fixes a problem I had in 24-rc6-mm1 > with kernel panics when certain X programs exited (Eterm being the > biggest cause), that I had bisected to "somewhere in > git-x86.patch"....
ok, good. Yesterday's x86.git update has this fix included so the next -mm iteration should have the fix as well. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/