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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware
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:
>
>
>>>I'm going to ruminate on non-fatal methods of complaining loudly.
>>>
>>>
>
>On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:40:37PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote:
>
>
>>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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Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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