Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758903AbYBOMA4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:00:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751018AbYBOMAr (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:00:47 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:58583 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750728AbYBOMAq (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:00:46 -0500 To: Matt Mackall Cc: Thomas Petazzoni , Sam Ravnborg , Linux-tiny@selenic.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] Configure out doublefault exception handler (Linux Tiny) From: Andi Kleen References: <20080212110825.35db27cb@crazy> <20080212130428.GA32757@uranus.ravnborg.org> <20080212150013.57cb954e@crazy> <1202832132.12383.93.camel@cinder.waste.org> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:00:42 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1202832132.12383.93.camel@cinder.waste.org> (Matt Mackall's message of "Tue\, 12 Feb 2008 10\:02\:12 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 699 Lines: 18 Matt Mackall 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 -- 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/