From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linux-tiny@selenic.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out doublefault exception handler (Linux Tiny)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:00:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73tzkazaxh.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202832132.12383.93.camel@cinder.waste.org> (Matt Mackall's message of "Tue\, 12 Feb 2008 10\:02\:12 -0600")
Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
>
> I bet there's some doublefault-handling code hiding somewhere. It's not
> the sort of thing it'd make sense to take out of the architecture.
The big question is if it makes sense taking out of a kernel at all.
I still think the answer is no.
Or have you considered replacing die() and show_trace() etc. with a single
panic("the tiny gods say this won't happen") yet? That would be roughly
equivalent.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-15 12:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-12 10:08 [PATCH] Configure out doublefault exception handler (Linux Tiny) Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-12 13:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-12 14:00 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-12 16:02 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-15 12:00 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-02-15 17:02 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-15 18:04 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-15 17:52 ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-17 17:59 ` Ingo Molnar
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