From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:13:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080328141348.GE29218@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080328134451.GB4544@ucw.cz>
* Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> On Fri 2008-03-28 12:35:28, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > * Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> >
> > > IOMMU off means very bad stuff may happen, like data corruption on
> > > your hard drives. At least tells users this is serious...
> >
> > ouch. Please at minimum lets turn this into a panic(), but best would be
> > to trim memory in this case, hm?
>
> Andi tells me we already fallback to swiotlb, so messages are not on
> wrong loglevel; they contain confusing/obsolete text.
yes that is the theory - but how did your disk get corrupted in
practice? ;-)
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-28 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-28 11:25 agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT Pavel Machek
2008-03-28 11:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-01 12:24 ` agpgart: scary messages are fortunately obsolete Pavel Machek
2008-04-01 13:33 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-04 8:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 11:35 ` agpgart: when telling user you'll corrupt his data, at least do it at KERN_CRIT Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 12:48 ` Jiri Kosina
2008-03-28 12:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-03-28 13:44 ` Pavel Machek
2008-03-28 14:13 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-03-28 14:25 ` Andi Kleen
2008-04-01 12:13 ` Pavel Machek
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