Messages in this thread | | | Date | 29 Sep 2006 10:57:45 +0200 | Date | Fri, 29 Sep 2006 10:57:45 +0200 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] Generic BUG handling. |
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> Some architectures (powerpc) implement WARN using the same mechanism; > if the illegal instruction was the result of a WARN, then report_bug() > returns 1; otherwise it returns 0.
In theory we could do that on x86 too (and skipping the instruction), the only problem is that the only guaranteed to fault opcode is ud2 :/. Ok maybe we could reserve some int XXX vector.
% gid WARN_ON | grep -v arch | wc -l 299
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