Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware

[Voicu Liviu <pacman@mscc.huji.ac.il>]

May I have the patch of this vmware fix to run a few tests?
Best regards,
Liviu

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:34:57PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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>>>I'm going to ruminate on non-fatal methods of complaining loudly.
>>>      
>>>
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>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:40:37PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote:
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>>SPARSE checker?
>>    
>>
>
>I was thinking of teaching the fault handlers to complain about
>->nopage() methods returning invalid results in a non-fatal manner,
>possibly with code consolidation.
>
>e.g. every arch does:
>
>	switch (handle_mm_fault(...)) {
>		case VM_FAULT_MINOR:
>			tsk->min_flt++;
>			break;
>		case VM_FAULT_MAJOR:
>			tsk->maj_flt++;
>			break;
>		case VM_FAULT_SIGBUS:
>			goto do_sigbus;
>		case VM_FAULT_OOM:
>			goto out_of_memory;
>		default:
>			BUG();
>	}
>
>which is vaguely repetitive. It's not immediately clear how to
>consolidate gotos, which is where the thought starts happening.
>
>The other part was replacing default: BUG() with something that
>complained (e.g. putting print_symbol() to use on the ->nopage()
>method) and treating the invalid statuses like OOM, but that's
>not really very hard to do (I posted something that did some
>crude reporting of that kind already to handle the sound/ bogons).
>
>
>-- wli
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