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test10-pre5 mount: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtualaddress

DISCUSSION David Dyck 1 participant 1 message Oct 27, 2000 1 message not in the archive

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Quoted 5 lines · Brian Gerst
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I am getting a repeatable oops during the boot up phase, with linux 2.4.0 test10-pre4

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I know what your problem is now:

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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
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