Sanity Check: Bogus(?) General Protection Fault

[Matt Fleming]

On Wed, 06 Aug, at 10:12:06AM, Eric van Gyzen wrote:
> Can someone give me a quick sanity check?  I'm debugging a General
> Protection Fault on an amd64 system.  The faulting instruction appears
> to be an immediate mov into %r11...right?  I ask because I can't imagine
> how that instruction could cause a GPF.  Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Eric
> 
> ====
> 
> Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
> cpuid = 0; apic id = 00
> instruction pointer     = 0x20:0xffffffff805d6e23

[...]

> 0xffffffff805d6e23 <vm_reserv_alloc_contig+947>:    mov   %rcx,0x10(%r11,%r9,1)

This is your faulting instruction.

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Matt Fleming, Intel Open Source Technology Center