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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 21:33:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061002213347.8229b6fc.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17697.58794.113796.925995@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:06 +1000
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes:
> 
> > When my test machine hits a BUG, it simply returns from the exception handler
> > after a second or so and reexecutes the bug.
> > 
> > This is independent of the use-generic-bug changes and might be related to
> > XMON.
> > 
> > So it's some unknonw bug, and this change makes the powerpc kernel behave
> > better when that bug hits.
> 
> NACK as to this part:
> 
> > +			if (btt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG)
> > +				do_exit(SIGSEGV);
> 
> since it makes the kernel behave distinctly *worse* for me.
> 

It makes it heaps better here.

Did you try my .config on the g5?



  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-03  4:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20061003010842.438670755@goop.org>
     [not found] ` <20061003010933.392428107@goop.org>
2006-10-03  4:23   ` [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03  4:33     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-03  5:19       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03  5:50         ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03  6:55           ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-03  7:20             ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-03  7:25               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] ` <20061003010930.971200285@goop.org>
2006-10-03 10:37   ` [PATCH 1/6] Generic implemenatation of BUG Andi Kleen
2006-10-03 15:53     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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