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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 1998 16:17:47 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ed overwrite clue? 
Message-ID:  <199802180017.QAA03678@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Feb 1998 00:28:52 %2B0100." <19980218002852.55010@follo.net> 

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> > 
> > I think what you're seeing there is you're taking interrupts on two 
> > different stacks.  The 0xefb* addresses are around _kstack, which is at 
> > 0xefbfe000.  The other one could be the user stack.
> 
> _kstack is the bottom end of the stack; the top end looks like it is
> at 0xefc0000.  All of the crashing addresses I've seen so far are in
> the top 256 bytes of the kstack, so it doesn't look like I'm running
> out of stack.

Ok.  Pity though, it would have been a convenient answer. 8)

> > > I'm about to start trigging some crashdumps on purpose now, so I can
> > > get a good look at how a dump for an OK case is.
> > 
> > Do you have any custom code in the kernel?
> 
> Yes.  And the system won't boot without it, so ripping it out is
> really not an option.  I could try to revert as much as possible, but
> it really doesn't look like any of the code that is revertible is at
> fault; almost none of it has been excersised yet.

The only reason I asked was inre: stack overflow.

> And the exact same kernel run fine with another NE2000-clone (on
> another port and IRQ, though, but there are no IRQ-conflicts).

8(  Try matching the two, just in case this is a real heisenbug...

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