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SubjectRe: [patch 2/2] x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v3
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:
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> Well, we should not be sending SIGSEGV...? SIGBUS would be cleaner, or
> SIGKILL... what happens when userland tries to catch this one?

When this happens the kernel is already in a severe out of memory
situation and no matter what you do user land will not be able
to handle this well.

-Andi


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