From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756129AbYC1Lft (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:35:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753235AbYC1Lfl (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:35:41 -0400 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:53099 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753191AbYC1Lfl (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:35:41 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:35:28 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Pavel Machek Cc: Andi Kleen , kernel list Subject: Re: agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT Message-ID: <20080328113528.GA8077@elte.hu> References: <20080328112507.GA10774@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080328112507.GA10774@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -0.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-0.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_20 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -0.5 BAYES_20 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 5 to 20% [score: 0.1190] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Pavel Machek 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