From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 23:46:41 +0000 Subject: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org The rate limiting stuff really limits the usefulness of the code I think. If you want to get notified of faults, you probably want all of them, and you want to know the ip for each occurence. If you just get some, it doesn't help you debug your code. Maybe there could be a NOTIFY option or something that would get printed only once if the app generated a fault? Thanks, Jesse On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 8 Oct 2001 14:57:00 -0700, Jesse Barnes said: > > Jesse> I think you mentioned awhile ago that a patch like this might be > Jesse> welcome. Well, here it is. It's diff'd against 2.4.10 with the ia64 > Jesse> patch. Please let me know if you find problems with it. > > The patch looks mostly good to me. However, why did you get rid of > the rate limiting code? I think we still want that. > > --david >