linux-kernel - Re: Serial related oops

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Date:	Thu, 22 Feb 2007 17:24:10 +0000
From:	jose.goncalves@...v.pt
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	"Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>,
	Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@...e.fr>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Serial related oops

Quoting Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:07:18PM +0000, Jose Goncalves wrote:
>> Russell King wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 04:34:15PM -0800, Michael K. Edwards wrote:
>> >
>> >> Are you using an unpatched gcc 4.1.1?  Its optimizer did nasty things
>> >> to us, at least on an ARM target ...
>> >>
>> >
>> > That's ruled out.  Please think about it for a moment - serial_in()
>> > managed to work correctly most of the time, and then spontaneously
>> > changes its well-defined ABI behaviour in a way that analysis of the
>> > asm doesn't allow it to.
>> >
>>
>> I'm using gcc 3.4.6.
>> But I agree with Russell, if it was such a problem it would hit on the
>> first iteration of my application and not after 1 day of executing the
>> same piece of code...
>
> One thing you might think about is running memtest86 on the machine
> for the same kind of time interval, just in case it's something trivial
> like bad ram.
>

OK. That's another thing to do.

Meanwhile I've switched to another SBC and I'm now running my 
application on the new unit. Lets wait and see...

José Gonçalves


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