From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH 2.6.21 review I] [4/25] x86: kernel-mode faults pollute current->thead
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:00:25 +0100
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On Tuesday 13 February 2007 08:52, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >Yup.  How does this patch look to you?  We set error_code and trap_no
> >for userspace faults and kernel faults which call die().  We don't set
> >them for kernelspace faults which are fixed up.
> 
> Actually, after a second round of thinking I believe there's still more to do
> - your second patch missed fixing i386's do_trap() similarly to x86-64's
> and, vice versa, x86-64's do_general_protection() similarly to i386's.

I dropped the patch for now until that is all worked out

-Andi
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