Re: [Jfs-discussion] Bus error with jfs 1.0.0 on SPARC Linux

[Steve B. <sb...@us...>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:51AM, Lenz Grimmer wrote:

> I am forwarding this on behalf of our SPARC maintainer:
>
> mkfs.jfs crashes in inodes.c (about line 145) with a bus error (SIGBUS).
>
> The code:
>
>  buf_ai = (struct dinode *)((char *)buffer + (&(aggr_inodes[AGGREGATE_I])
- aggr_inodes));
>  buf_ai->di_gengen = __le32_to_cpu(buf_ai->di_gengen);
>
> He assumes, that the compiler/assembler is unable to handle the fact,
that
> buf_ai is a pointer to an odd memory address...

Lenz/Thorsten,

Thanks for trying JFS on a SPARC. We don't have access to SPARC, so
maybe we can work out something, since this might not be the only
problem we have. Looks like mkfs needs some work done to get it
running on a SPARC.

BTW, PA-RISC-Linux isn't that happy with mkfs either.

Steve