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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:35:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328113528.GA8077@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080328112507.GA10774@elf.ucw.cz>


* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:

> IOMMU off means very bad stuff may happen, like data corruption on 
> your hard drives. At least tells users this is serious...

ouch. Please at minimum lets turn this into a panic(), but best would be 
to trim memory in this case, hm?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 11:25 agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT Pavel Machek
2008-03-28 11:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-01 12:24   ` agpgart: scary messages are fortunately obsolete Pavel Machek
2008-04-01 13:33     ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-04  8:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 11:35 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-28 12:48   ` agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT Jiri Kosina
2008-03-28 12:51     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 13:44   ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-28 14:13     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 14:25       ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-01 12:13       ` Pavel Machek

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