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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Mihaela Grigore <grigore.mihaela@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: self-modifying code in 2.6 kernel for ppc writes into readonly section
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:13:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A9F423.2070602@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18942.1219097397@neuling.org>

Michael Neuling wrote:
>> It seems like no one else is interested in the subject, so i will talk
>> directly to you.
>>
>> If you say that the cpu also seg faults, it means that the problem is
>> in the code of the linux kernel... :)
> 
> Sorry, I was only joking.  The hardware does _not_ segfault.  There is
> no equivalent to segfault in real hardware.

Well, there are machine checks and checkstops... :-)

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-18 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-18 16:01 self-modifying code in 2.6 kernel for ppc writes into readonly section Mihaela Grigore
2008-08-18 19:19 ` Michael Neuling
2008-08-18 19:57   ` Mihaela Grigore
2008-08-18 20:51     ` Michael Neuling
2008-08-18 21:25       ` Becky Bruce
2008-08-18 22:07         ` Mihaela Grigore
2008-08-18 23:33           ` Michael Neuling
     [not found]       ` <78ef7ce10808181427m507434f4we84d507b090a707b@mail.gmail.com>
2008-08-18 22:09         ` Michael Neuling
2008-08-18 22:13           ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-08-18 22:18             ` Michael Neuling

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