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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: npiggin@suse.de
Cc: duaneg@dghda.com, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.23 regression: accessing invalid mmap'ed memory from gdb causes unkillable spinning
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:44:25 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071031.004425.12962203.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071031074106.GE12189@wotan.suse.de>

From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:41:06 +0100

> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 11:56:00PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:42:21 +0100
> > 
> > Anyways, my core suggestion is to add a hook here so platforms can
> > do the remote register fetch if they want.
> 
> You could possibly even do a generic "best effort" kind of thing with
> regular IPIs, that will timeout and continue if some CPUs don't handle
> them, and should be pretty easy to get working with existing smp_call_
> function stuff. Not exactly clean, but it would be better than nothing.

Without a doubt.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-31  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31  0:45 2.6.23 regression: accessing invalid mmap'ed memory from gdb causes unkillable spinning Duane Griffin
2007-10-31  4:19 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-31 10:27   ` Duane Griffin
2007-10-31 15:11   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 15:19     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-31 15:59       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-10-31 17:19         ` Duane Griffin
2007-10-31 22:55         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-31 23:08           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-01  2:37             ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-01 15:14               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-01 15:47                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-01 16:08                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-01 23:56                     ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-02  1:17                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-02  6:30                         ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-31  6:42 ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-31  6:56   ` David Miller
2007-10-31  7:41     ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-31  7:44       ` David Miller [this message]
2007-11-02  5:02         ` David Miller
2007-11-02 10:45           ` Nick Piggin
2007-11-02 15:36             ` Ingo Molnar

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