Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:51:05 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: odd NFS behaviour with DU 4.F client Message-ID: <99Oct29.114607est.40359@border.alcanet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199910290103.SAA13818@apollo.backplane.com> References: <14360.50663.727201.679421@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199910282225.PAA12530@apollo.backplane.com> <14360.60247.329457.247327@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <199910290103.SAA13818@apollo.backplane.com>
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On 1999-Oct-29 11:03:20 +1000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Unfortunately, we just don't see these sorts > of panics on Intel boxes all that much because IA32 allows misaligned > accesses. This means there are almost certainly alignment bugs in the > code. You can enable user-mode alignment traps on the IA32. Check out EFLAGS bit 18 and the AM bit in CR0 - unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work for ring 0, 1, 2 so you can't find alignment problems in the kernel. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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