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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 15:01:51 -0600
From: Matt Reppert <arashi@arashi.yi.org>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.51 on Alpha oopses on mount
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On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 10:57:22 -0800
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:31:55PM -0600, Matt Reppert wrote:
> > >>PC;  fffffc00004a5240 <__copy_user+100/1d4>   <=====
> > Trace; fffffc0000385920 <sys_mount+40/160>
> 
> This fault is expected and is _supposed_ to be handled by the
> exception mechanism.  Why this stopped working, I don't know.
> 
> For grins, see if the following helps.  It's something that I
> need for the shared-library modules anyway, and it eliminates
> an extra variable from the problem.

This seems to work, mount doesn't oops anymore. I guess this
means I can go back to trying to get the shared modules patches
to compile and boot, since this is in shared-modules-alpha.
Thanks!

Matt
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