Ok, answering to myself: Floating point error, triggers coprocessor_error()(**) with signal 8/SIGFPE :) Eugene <quote who="Eugene Teo"> u> Just to confirm, FPE, floating point or fixed point? u> u> <quote who="Seth Arnold"> u> u> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:52:00PM -0500, Raghu R. Arur wrote: u> u> > i really dont know what this signal is for. u> u> u> u> kill -l u> u> u> u> 8 is SIGFPE on my system -- floating point exception. u> u> u> u> For the original poster -- don't use floating point in the kernel. If u> u> you do, you need to modify the context switch code to properly handle u> u> the floating point registers. u> u> u> u> -- u> u> http://immunix.org/ u> u> u> u> -- u> eMail: eugeneteo@eugeneteo.net, eugeneteo@null.cc.uic.edu u> gpg pub_key: http://null.cc.uic.edu/~eugeneteo/eugeneteo.asc u> main(i){putchar(182623909>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<7)<<6)&&main(++i);} u> u> -- u> Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. u> Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ u> FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ u> -- eMail: eugeneteo@eugeneteo.net, eugeneteo@null.cc.uic.edu gpg pub_key: http://null.cc.uic.edu/~eugeneteo/eugeneteo.asc main(i){putchar(182623909>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<7)<<6)&&main(++i);} -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
