Subject: Re: 1.5.1(ish) and ^C
To: None <eeh@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/26/2001 21:47:13
On 26 Jun 2001 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:

>
> 		Just installed 1.5.1_... on an Ultra 1, and everything seems OK,
> 		except for a marked tendency to drop into DDB when ^C is hit on
> 		a process (not necessarily on the console). Is this an 'upgrade'
> 		to -current issue?
>
> Probably.  What's the reason for entering DDB?
>
	sigreturn14: pc 0x478fdc0 or npc 0x1 invalid
	A 'c' continues.

> ISTR there is debug code in the kernel to detect attempting to enter
> the signal trampoline with either an invalid pc or invalid stack and
> enter DDB.  That usually happens before the address space is fully
> set up.  You should be able to get rid of that behavior by not using
> DEBUG kernels.  But in either case, -current should not have that
> problem.

	Is there any chance of a pullup into the 1.5 branch, or maybe
	even just a LAST_MINUTE for 1.5.1 sparc64 to compile GENERIC
	without DEBUG? (Compiling to test now :)

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