Re: Backtrace problems from a signal handler

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 15:29:12 +1000, Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >gdb with libunwind support does not unwind correctly if a signal >handler calls another function which then takes a core dump. > >SuSE SLES9 SP2. gdb-6.3-16.4. libunwind-0.98.5-3.2. gcc 3.3.3. David Mosberger suggested

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > I started on my OLS homework from Andrew ... and began looking > > > into what is going on here. > > > > > > > Thanks ;) I guess we'll end up with a better kernel, even though you appear > >

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

Andrew Morton wrote: > "Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I started on my OLS homework from Andrew ... and began looking > > into what is going on here. > > > > Thanks ;) I guess we'll end up with a better kernel, even though you appear > to be an innocent victim here. The "Badness

Re: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

"Luck, Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I started on my OLS homework from Andrew ... and began looking > into what is going on here. > Thanks ;) I guess we'll end up with a better kernel, even though you appear to be an innocent victim here. > > Andrew: How did you get the squitty font on i

RE: [patch] properly stop devices before poweroff

I started on my OLS homework from Andrew ... and began looking into what is going on here. The story so far: Pavel added calls to device_suspend() to three of the cases in the sys_reboot() path. This stopped ia64 from being able to shutdown. There is a oops with a stacktrace pointing back at the

Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] fix unaligned memory access in snsc_event.c

Greg Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've added a new function to the file that copies a (big-endian) > integer out of a byte buffer and into a little-endian integer > variable. How about using get_unaligned? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products Gmb

[PATCH 2.6.13-rc3] fix unaligned memory access in snsc_event.c

Hi Tony, It's been pointed out that environmental events from the system controllers on Altix machines cause the kernel to complain about unaligned memory accesses. This turns out to be because "be32_to_cpup()" didn't do everything I thought/hoped it did. I've added a new function to the file tha