From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Exception handling and recovery
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:51:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905251@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590701905250@msgid-missing>
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 14:53:31 +1100, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:
Keith> Unlike i386, the ia64 exception table code only recovers from
Keith> invalid user space addresses. kdb can get other faults which
Keith> EX() does not currently allow recovery from. Is there any
Keith> reason why I should not add exception table handling to
Keith> ia64_fault(), to generalize the fault recovery mechanism?
You mean kdb would do get_user() on a bad pointer, which triggers
ia64_fault() and then you want to search the exception table in
ia64_fault()? I think it would be ok to do this (in the KDB patch).
--david
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-13 4:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-13 3:53 [Linux-ia64] Exception handling and recovery Keith Owens
2002-03-13 4:51 ` David Mosberger [this message]
2002-03-13 5:22 ` Keith Owens
2002-03-13 5:32 ` David Mosberger
2002-03-13 13:58 ` Jack Steiner
2002-03-13 14:08 ` Keith Owens
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