Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:23:06 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <> |
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes:
> When my test machine hits a BUG, it simply returns from the exception handler > after a second or so and reexecutes the bug. > > This is independent of the use-generic-bug changes and might be related to > XMON. > > So it's some unknonw bug, and this change makes the powerpc kernel behave > better when that bug hits.
NACK as to this part:
> + if (btt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG) > + do_exit(SIGSEGV);
since it makes the kernel behave distinctly *worse* for me.
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