Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:08:48 +0300 | From | Avi Kivity <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly |
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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.
-- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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