From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org, florian@openwrt.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Use force_sig when handling address errors.
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 21:32:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090505203231.GA25433@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1241552987-662-1-git-send-email-ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 12:49:47PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> When init is started it is SIGNAL_UNKILLABLE. If it were to get an
> address error, we would try to send it SIGBUS, but it would be ignored
> and the faulting instruction restarted. This results in an endless
> loop.
>
> We need to use force_sig() instead so it will actually die and give us
> some useful information.
>
> Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Thanks! Will apply.
Ralf
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2009-05-05 19:49 [PATCH] MIPS: Use force_sig when handling address errors David Daney
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