Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:42:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:42:12 -0500 Received: from air-2.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:33242 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:42:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:50:32 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Szakacsits Szabolcs Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) Message-Id: <20030312085032.7d536566.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1526 Lines: 40 On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 07:07:26 +0100 (MET) Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: | | On 11 Mar 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: | > | > If there is a well-known list of compilers, we should put a BIG warning | > in some core kernel file to guide people to upgrade (or maybe work | | Not enough, nobody would notice and today most end user doesn't | compile the kernel himself, they are just shipped by a broken kernels. | | We *also* need a mechanism to know the kernel was compiled with a | broken compiler (from kernel point of view of course, not the latest | C++ features). Like the 'tainted' approach but this would be marked as | broken/miscompiled/etc. To be able to tell the user *immediately* to | complain to his vendor instead hunting/finding the bug again and | again, as happening now. Not quite what you describe, but the in-kernel-config (ikconfig) patch by me & some HP folks saves a "built-with" string along with the .config file (as a CONFIG option, of course). | BTW, if possible having the Code both before and after when a fault | happens could also help a lot in the future. Do you just mean more opcode decoding? | And in general, an oops counter would be also useful, not spending too | much time decoding potentialy bogus oopses. Yes. -- ~Randy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/