linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:08:48 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly

Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> We dont do any instruction decoding in #GP handlers to figure out what 
>> happened, while in the pagefault case we know which address faulted, 
>> etc.
>>     
>
> Why would we care? It would be very obvious from the instruction 
> disassembly plus the register contents. No need to decode instructions.
>   

We could add a printk to the #GP handler that alerts the reader that a 
poisoned list is suspected, if we find the address pattern in one of the 
registers.

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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