Re: [2.6.8] OOPS and SIGSEGV on altivec instruction on PowerPC 7540.

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This is odd. the 2.6.8 kernel should have the code that causes a SIGILL if !CONFIG_ALTIVEC. Can you enable CONFIG_KALLSYMS.

- kumar

On May 13, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Pawel Sikora wrote:

Hi,

simple runtime altivec detection from userspace causes an oops
 on the `vand` instruction. kernel was built *without* CONFIG_ALTIVEC.
i think kernel should return a SIGILL instead of an oops ;-)

Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#65]
NIP: C0008B84 LR: C0007F2C SP: CF373F20 REGS: cf373e70 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted
 MSR: 00009032 EE: 1 PR: 0 FP: 0 ME: 1 IR/DR: 11
 DAR: 00000088, DSISR: 40000000
 TASK = c81e04f0[12983] 'altivec' THREAD: cf372000Last syscall: 174
GPR00: C0007F2C CF373F20 C81E04F0 00000004 00000004 00030001 00000000 0FEE08D0 GPR08: 0000F932 C0007F2C 00009032 C0350000 081E0788 00000000 00000000 100A37D8 GPR16: 100A0000 00000000 100A0000 00000000 10070000 100A37C8 100AEF08 00000000 GPR24: 100A1108 00000000 100A59A8 3002AEF8 3002BB80 3002AE60 0FFEA6FC 00000004
 Call trace: [c0007f2c]



processor       : 0
 cpu             : 7450
 clock           : 700MHz
 revision        : 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201)
 bogomips        : 696.32
 machine         : PowerMac4,4
 motherboard     : PowerMac4,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
 detected as     : 80 (eMac)
 pmac flags      : 00000001
 L2 cache        : 256K unified
memory          : 384MB
 pmac-generation : NewWorld

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