the mfc member of a new context was not initialized to zero, which potentially leads to wild memory accesses. From: Dirk Herrendoerfer Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Index: linux-2.6.16-rc/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.16-rc.orig/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c +++ linux-2.6.16-rc/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/context.c @@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ struct spu_context *alloc_spu_context(vo ctx->ibox_fasync = NULL; ctx->wbox_fasync = NULL; ctx->mfc_fasync = NULL; + ctx->mfc = NULL; ctx->tagwait = 0; ctx->state = SPU_STATE_SAVED; ctx->local_store = NULL; --