Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: How to lock current->signal->tty | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:44:10 +0100 |
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Ar Mer, 2006-08-09 am 04:09 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jes Sorensen: > Personally I don't like the current approach. However, I believe the > philosophy behind it is that users rarely look in dmesg and they > should be notified (and beaten with a stick) when their badly written > app spawns unaligned accesses which end up being emulated by the > kernel.
The users won't seem the anyway, they are hidden behind the GUI.
> These messages are normally caused by userland code, so kprobes > probably wont do much good :)
Jes, read up on kprobes a little if you think its of no use in these kind of situations. A systemtap script to count/measure alignment fault rates and see who is causing the load isn't very hard to write.
Alan
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