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SubjectRe: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> We dont do any instruction decoding in #GP handlers to figure out what
>> happened, while in the pagefault case we know which address faulted,
>> etc.
>>
>
> Why would we care? It would be very obvious from the instruction
> disassembly plus the register contents. No need to decode instructions.
>

We could add a printk to the #GP handler that alerts the reader that a
poisoned list is suspected, if we find the address pattern in one of the
registers.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function



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