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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:47:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Subject:   RE: Anybody else seeing a broken /dev/lpt with SMP on -current?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010115114716.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05001902b686ad0d2404@[128.113.24.47]>

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On 14-Jan-01 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 6:55 PM -0800 1/12/01, John Baldwin wrote:
>>On 13-Jan-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote:
>>  > If anybody wants a fuller traceback then I'll compile up a kernel
>>  > with debugging symbols, but it's going to be pretty sparse anyway
>>  > since it basically only shows the trap() from the page fault and
>>  > the subsequent panic.
>>
>>All the other traces show the kernel having returned to an address
>>that is beyond the end of the kernel (which causes the page fault)
>>meaning that the stack is fubar'd, so the trace isn't meaningful
>>anyways. :(  Knowing how and why the lpd interrupt handler trashes
>>the stack is the useful info, and with the stack already trashed,
>>I don't know of an easy way to figure that out.
> 
> Do you really mean the "lpd interrupt handler", or do you mean
> the "lpt interrupt handler"?  Does this problem only happen when
> lpd is sending data thru /dev/lpt?

lpt interrupt handler, yes.

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