From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Dieter Ries <clip2@gmx.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:01:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496A965F.6050209@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496A451C.5030400@sgi.com>
Mike Travis wrote:
>
> About the return 0, it was the default return for another error case.
> Should the function panic because it can't read a cpu reg? That seems
> wrong too.
>
The only other error case I see is when the value simply is zero by
definition. This is a memory allocation failure, which is quite a bit
different -- the former is that the query *can't* be answered, the
latter that the query *won't* be answered...
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-12 1:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-11 14:55 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 15:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 15:30 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 15:35 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 15:41 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 18:50 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-11 19:02 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-11 19:30 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-12 10:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 17:53 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-12 18:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-15 0:54 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-11 19:02 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-11 19:14 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-11 23:19 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-12 1:01 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-01-12 11:22 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-12 11:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 11:28 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-12 12:10 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-12 12:21 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-12 16:37 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-12 18:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-13 4:45 ` Michal Jaegermann
2009-01-12 17:22 ` 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot and fails to resume Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-01-14 1:16 ` 2.6.29-rc1 does not boot Rusty Russell
2009-01-14 11:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-14 12:47 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-15 20:01 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 21:03 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-15 21:48 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-15 21:54 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 23:04 ` Maciej Rutecki
2009-01-15 23:31 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 21:54 ` Mike Travis
2009-01-15 23:02 ` Dieter Ries
2009-01-15 23:30 ` Mike Travis
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