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Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 15:43:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, "Barry K. Nathan" <barryn@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: test10-pre5 mount: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
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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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