linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/fault: Clean up the page fault oops decoder a bit

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Message-ID: <CALCETrUY9vp21JJGwErvHwrQAfc1nL4iyJZJb2GvnS1pe8H1MQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Nov 2018 06:30:45 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/mm] x86/fault: Clean up the page fault oops decoder a bit

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 2:13 AM tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
<tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
>
> Commit-ID:  a2aa52ab16efbee40ad118ebac4a5e438f5b43ee
> Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/a2aa52ab16efbee40ad118ebac4a5e438f5b43ee
> Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:34:03 +0100
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 09:38:13 +0100
>
> x86/fault: Clean up the page fault oops decoder a bit

Thanks!

>
>  - Make the oops messages a bit less scary (don't mention 'HW errors')

I thought the goal was to divert bug reports to the hardware vendors.
"My Linux laptop crashed.  It said that hardware was WRITE PROT.  Fix
it!!!!!!!1111!"  :)

--Andy