Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750885AbWBVLqn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:46:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750886AbWBVLqn (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:46:43 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:8941 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750847AbWBVLqm (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 06:46:42 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17404.20246.361572.784670@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:46:30 +1100 From: Paul Mackerras To: Alan Curry Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: fix altivec_unavailable_exception Oopses In-Reply-To: <200602212339.SAA1138491@shell.TheWorld.com> References: <200602212339.SAA1138491@shell.TheWorld.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 518 Lines: 15 Alan Curry writes: > altivec_unavailable_exception is called without setting r3... it looks like > the r3 that actually gets passed in as struct pt_regs *regs is the > undisturbed value of r3 at the time the altivec instruction was encountered. Nice catch! Thanks, Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/