[aarch64-port-dev ] [Roland Westrelin] Re: Aarch64 port for ZGC, so far

[Andrew Haley]

On 4/13/19 11:33 PM, Stuart Monteith wrote:
>    At some point earlier on another thread the connection is being
> closed, hence the XIOError here. This error is being caused because
> the libx11 library is writing some image data to its socket with
> "writev(int fd, const struct iovec *iov, int iovcnt);" returning an
> error. The errno associated with that is EFAULT - which means the
> kernel was being passed a bad address.
> The reason running with AWT is exiting is that tagged addresses are
> regarded as bad by the kernel,

Great catch.

That sounds like a kernel bug to me. The upper bits are supposed to be
ignored by the system. Can you raise this with a suitable kernel engineer?

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Andrew Haley
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