Re: Compiler error? [was: Re: new kernel oops in recent kernels]

[Giuseppe Sacco <giuseppe@eppesuigoccas.homedns.org>]

Hi Thomas,

Il giorno lun, 17/03/2008 alle 00.36 +0100, Thomas Bogendoerfer ha
scritto:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:27:37PM +0100, Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> > the gcc I am using in versione 4.1.2. Any help is really appreciated.
> 
> 4.2.1 generates nearly the same (reasonable) code. The major difference
> between the version with printk and the version without is the size
> of the local stack. I guess this prevents killing of *cd.
> Could you try the hack below and tell me, if it helps ? This hack
> ensures, that the buffer given to the scsi driver is one cache
> line big (at least on R5k O2s). If this helps, there are more
> places to fix for non-coherent machines...
[...]

The patch you proposed, that use a larger buffer, does not seems to
trigger the bug.

Thanks,
Giuseppe