Subject: ARM 6/7 late abort fixup (was Re: Kernel copyin/out optimizations for ARM...)
To: Reinoud Zandijk" , "David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Chris Gilbert <chris@paradox.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm
Date: 03/16/2002 12:02:53
----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinoud Zandijk" <reinoud@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:11 PM
> Dunno if i try them soon :) but i've just fixed a nasty ARM 6/7 specific
> problem ... an instruction that couldn't be fixed up in f.e. the late
abort
> handler would _allways_ panic the kernel ... even when the instruction was
> in userland :( ... appears to have been the case since 1994 when Mark
> Brinicombe started on it ...

Have you got any test code that triggered it?  would it be worth putting it
into a regression test (make sure we don't lose/break it again?)

Cheers,
Chris