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From: Jun Sun <jsun@mvista.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let us die more gracefully
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:40:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3C3572.40807@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.3.96.1020722154730.2373E-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl

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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> 
>>This patch dumps the offending code context rather than dumping the context of 
>>do_ri() function call itself.
> 
> 
>  The message is misleading -- the reason may be any illegal opcode.
> 

That is true.  Here is the revised one.

Jun

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diff -Nru linux/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c.orig linux/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c
--- linux/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c.orig	Thu Jul 18 15:39:50 2002
+++ linux/arch/mips/kernel/traps.c	Thu Jul 18 16:49:32 2002
@@ -614,8 +614,7 @@
  */
 asmlinkage void do_ri(struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
-	if (!user_mode(regs))
-		BUG();
+	die_if_kernel("Reserved instruction in kernel code", regs);
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_CPU_HAS_LLSC
 

      reply	other threads:[~2002-07-22 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-19 21:18 [PATCH] Let us die more gracefully Jun Sun
2002-07-22 13:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-07-22 16:40   ` Jun Sun [this message]

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