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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] WTF is VLI?
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 16:10:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041111211050.GC32275@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0411112103060.3167-100000@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:05:11PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
 > What is this "VLI" that 2.6.9 started putting after the taint string
 > in i386 oopses?  Vick Library Index?  Vineyard Leadership Institute?

"Variable length instructions".  I think newer ksymoops looks
for this tag and does something magical when doing disassembly.

		Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-11 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-11 21:05 [PATCH] WTF is VLI? Hugh Dickins
2004-11-11 21:10 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2004-11-12 23:26   ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-15 21:18     ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-16  6:00       ` Keith Owens
2004-11-16  9:56         ` Hugh Dickins
2004-11-17  5:55           ` Keith Owens
2004-11-18 15:47             ` Avi Kivity
2004-11-18 18:08               ` Horst von Brand
2004-11-18 23:38                 ` Avi Kivity
2004-11-21  3:58               ` Keith Owens
2004-11-11 21:14 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found] <fa.inbtt12.195ed02@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.cg6f09j.ji89hv@ifi.uio.no>
2004-11-18 18:28   ` Bodo Eggert
2004-11-18 23:44     ` Avi Kivity

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