From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm3
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:47:55 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311141344290.5877-100000@home.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <103290000.1068847073@flay>
On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
> Linus had some debug thing for triple faults, a few months ago, IIRC ...
> probably in the archives somewhere ...
Triple faults you can't debug, they raise a line outside the CPU, and
normal PC hardware will cause that to just trigger a reboot.
But double faults do get caught, and that debugging stuff actually is in
the standard kernel. It won't give _nearly_ as good a debug report as a
"normal" oops, since I didn't want the double-fault handler to touch
anything even remotely unsafe, but it often gives a good hint about what
might be wrong. Certainly better than triple-faulting did (which we still
do for _catastrophic_ corruption, eg totally munged kernel page tables etc
- it's just very hard to avoid once you get corrupted enough).
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-14 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-13 7:30 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-11-13 20:03 ` [PATCH] linux-2.6.0-test9-mm3_verbose-timesource-acpi-pm_A0 john stultz
2003-11-13 22:03 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 - AIO test results Daniel McNeil
2003-11-17 5:25 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-11-18 1:15 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-11-18 1:37 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-11-18 11:55 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-11-18 23:47 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-11-24 9:42 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-11-25 23:49 ` [PATCH 2.6.0-test9-mm5] aio-dio-fallback-bio_count-race.patch Daniel McNeil
2003-11-26 7:55 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-12-02 1:35 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-12-02 15:25 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-12-03 23:14 ` Daniel McNeil
2003-12-04 4:40 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-11-13 22:04 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 (compile stats) John Cherry
2003-11-14 5:07 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-14 20:57 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-14 21:57 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-14 21:37 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-14 21:47 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-11-15 0:55 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-15 19:34 ` [PATCH][2.6-mm] Fix 4G/4G X11/vm86 oops Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-15 19:52 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-17 21:46 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-17 22:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-17 23:01 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-17 23:14 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-18 7:21 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-18 15:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-18 16:16 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-18 16:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-18 17:08 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-18 17:38 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-18 17:22 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-19 20:32 ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-19 23:09 ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-20 7:14 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-11-20 7:44 ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-20 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-11-20 8:13 ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-14 19:08 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-14 18:59 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Andrew Morton
2003-11-14 19:32 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2003-11-14 20:27 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 John Stoffel
2003-11-15 1:01 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Mike Fedyk
2003-11-14 19:10 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Badari Pulavarty
2003-11-14 20:29 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 Martin J. Bligh
2003-11-17 20:58 ` 2.6.0-test9-mm3 bill davidsen
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