Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:33:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <> |
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On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:06 +1000 Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:
> 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. >
It makes it heaps better here.
Did you try my .config on the g5?
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