LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org
help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Linux-tiny@selenic.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out doublefault exception handler (Linux Tiny)
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:00:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73tzkazaxh.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1202832132.12383.93.camel@cinder.waste.org> (Matt Mackall's message of "Tue\, 12 Feb 2008 10\:02\:12 -0600")

Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> writes:
>
> I bet there's some doublefault-handling code hiding somewhere. It's not
> the sort of thing it'd make sense to take out of the architecture.

The big question is if it makes sense taking out of a kernel at all.
I still think the answer is no.

Or have you considered replacing die() and show_trace() etc. with a single
panic("the tiny gods say this won't happen") yet? That would be roughly 
equivalent.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-15 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-12 10:08 Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-12 13:04 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-02-12 14:00   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2008-02-12 16:02     ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-15 12:00       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-02-15 17:02         ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-15 18:04           ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-15 17:52             ` Matt Mackall
2008-02-17 17:59 ` Ingo Molnar

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=p73tzkazaxh.fsf@bingen.suse.de \
    --to=andi@firstfloor.org \
    --cc=Linux-tiny@selenic.com \
    --cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@elte.hu \
    --cc=mpm@selenic.com \
    --cc=sam@ravnborg.org \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com \
    --subject='Re: [PATCH] Configure out doublefault exception handler (Linux Tiny)' \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).