linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6

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Message-ID: <4822353D.8050308@zytor.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 May 2008 16:03:25 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Henry Nestler <henry.nestler@...il.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux
 2.6 - v2

Henry Nestler wrote:
> Shure, the "out of range address" was from buggy driver development.
> But not of adresses should kill the complete system.

Actually, that's the normal thing to happen for kernel code poking at an 
address it shouldn't.

It should do it cleanly, via an oops, though.

	-hpa
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