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Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 00:51:16 +0200
From: Andreas Schuldei <andreas@schuldei.org>
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kdb against memory corruption?
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* Andreas Schuldei (andreas@schuldei.org) [021007 19:11]:
> an other idea (by erikm) was that virutal and physical address
> mode is mixed up. how do i find out which one is used by kdb and the
> debug interface of the cpu? do i need to convert, somehow?

yet another possibility is that a 3Dnow function is used for
memset. Would that be caught?

i tried compiling the kernel for i386, but it still did not work
(to be droped into kdb when the memory gets currupted).