From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DXyzk-0008JJ-Pd for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 17 May 2005 03:08:12 -0700 Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.6] ident=root) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.41) id 1DXyzi-0002r9-48 for user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 17 May 2005 03:08:12 -0700 From: Gerd Knorr Message-ID: <20050517100317.GB20584@bytesex> References: <200505170005.43629.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505170005.43629.blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Subject: [uml-devel] Re: uml-general-protection-fault even more kludgy but mergeable Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 12:03:17 +0200 To: Blaisorblade Cc: Jeff Dike , user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > So, in practice, it's correct to call bad_segv() as done in the patch, but we > miss some cases. Only this time I've verified this well enough that I feel we > could merge your patch. However, I've not found any possible *realistic* > source of general protection faults. Especially I didn't find what expected > (i.e. I/O errors). The case I trapped into was an attempt to access I/O ports of a process running inside the uml. The uml kernel then tried to handle that as page fault, which didn't work very well ... Gerd -- -mm seems unusually stable at present. -- akpm about 2.6.12-rc3-mm3 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel