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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:06 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>, Hugh Dickens <hugh@...itas.com>, Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes: > When my test machine hits a BUG, it simply returns from the exception handler > after a second or so and reexecutes the bug. > > This is independent of the use-generic-bug changes and might be related to > XMON. > > So it's some unknonw bug, and this change makes the powerpc kernel behave > better when that bug hits. NACK as to this part: > + if (btt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG) > + do_exit(SIGSEGV); since it makes the kernel behave distinctly *worse* for me. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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