From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Henry Nestler <henry.nestler@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6 - v2
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 16:03:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4822353D.8050308@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48221695.7060507@henry.nestler.gmail.com>
Henry Nestler wrote:
> Shure, the "out of range address" was from buggy driver development.
> But not of adresses should kill the complete system.
Actually, that's the normal thing to happen for kernel code poking at an
address it shouldn't.
It should do it cleanly, via an oops, though.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-22 22:50 [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6 Henry Nestler
2008-04-23 0:18 ` Henry Nestler
2008-04-28 16:46 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 22:22 ` Henry Nestler
2008-04-29 14:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-29 15:14 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-04-29 21:06 ` Henry Nestler
2008-04-29 22:24 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-04-28 16:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-05-07 20:52 ` [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux 2.6 - v2 Henry Nestler
2008-05-07 21:08 ` Henry Nestler
2008-05-07 23:03 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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