From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
david+validemail@kalifornia.com, mingo@elte.hu,
Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:07:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001010160713.B17671@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001010043802.D3386@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>; from prumpf@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk on Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:38:02AM +0100
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 04:38:02AM +0100, Philipp Rumpf wrote:
> Init should never die. If we get to do_exit in init we'll panic which is
> the right thing to do (reboot on critical systems).
If the page fault can fail with OOM on init, init will get a SIGSEGV while
running a signal handler (copy-user will return -EFAULT regardless it was an
oom or a real segfault) and it _won't_ panic and the system is unusable.
Andrea
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-10-10 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 112+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-10-06 18:59 [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler Rik van Riel
2000-10-06 20:19 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-06 20:31 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 10:12 ` Marco Colombo
2000-10-09 11:27 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-09 16:26 ` Kurt Garloff
2000-10-09 18:29 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-10-09 17:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 17:25 ` Mark Hahn
2000-10-09 17:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 17:47 ` Ed Tomlinson
2000-10-09 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 18:14 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 18:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 18:52 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 19:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 19:38 ` Marco Colombo
2000-10-06 21:27 ` David Weinehall
2000-10-06 23:21 ` David Weinehall
2000-10-09 18:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 18:42 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 19:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 19:07 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 19:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 20:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:06 ` Andi Kleen
2000-10-09 20:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:12 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:18 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 3:23 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-09 20:38 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-09 20:40 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 9:59 ` J.A. Sutherland
2000-10-09 20:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 21:52 ` Aaron Sethman
2000-10-09 21:54 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 22:29 ` FORT David
2000-10-09 20:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 20:58 ` Andi Kleen
2000-10-09 21:21 ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-09 21:34 ` Andi Kleen
2000-10-09 21:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 21:39 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-10 13:17 ` Marco Colombo
2000-10-09 21:44 ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 21:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 22:07 ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 23:13 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-10-09 23:16 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 23:46 ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-10 9:46 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-10-10 14:41 ` Rogier Wolff
2000-10-10 17:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 21:51 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-09 21:40 ` Jim Gettys
2000-10-09 21:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 22:08 ` Gerrit.Huizenga
2000-10-09 22:34 ` Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-09 22:57 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 0:25 ` [RFC] New ideas for the " Byron Stanoszek
2000-10-09 20:11 ` [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & " Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 20:15 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-09 20:47 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:57 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 21:10 ` Peter Waltenberg
2000-10-09 22:25 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 22:59 ` Peter Waltenberg
2000-10-09 23:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 23:10 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:10 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-09 21:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 21:26 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:38 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 21:34 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 9:09 ` john slee
2000-10-09 20:06 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-10 3:29 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-10 15:06 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 15:24 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-10 15:30 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 15:37 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-09 20:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:08 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-09 20:28 ` David Ford
2000-10-09 20:34 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 20:45 ` David Ford
2000-10-10 4:22 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-10-10 4:30 ` David Ford
2000-10-10 9:54 ` Jamie Lokier
2000-10-09 23:35 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-10 15:07 ` [PATCH] OOM killer API (was: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler) Ingo Oeser
2000-10-10 15:32 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 16:11 ` Ingo Oeser
2000-10-10 18:57 ` Tom Rini
2000-10-10 20:58 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-10 22:46 ` Tom Rini
2000-10-09 19:30 ` [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler David Ford
2000-10-09 19:58 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-10-09 20:14 ` David Ford
2000-10-09 20:05 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-09 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-10 3:38 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-10-10 14:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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2000-10-09 18:07 Wagner, Dave
2000-10-09 20:27 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-09 19:06 Hubertus Franke/Watson/IBM
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