Re: Try/catch for modules?

[Ruben Safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>]

On 10/18/19 1:05 PM, Martin Galvan wrote:
> El vie., 18 oct. 2019 a las 14:02, Ruben Safir (<ruben@mrbrklyn.com>) escribió:
>> I don't think you really understand what is going on here.  On the
>> kernel level you would never wrap up a process in another process in
>> order to catch a mistake, and then do error correction.  That method of
>> programming is not appropriate for kernel level code where you are
>> running everything on the hardware.
>>
>> You can test for a condition before you run the code, and use GOTO if
>> you want, but you are not doing a Java like Catch and Throw.
> 
> I'm not talking about running managed code in the kernel. I'm talking
> about whether there is a more general version of something like
> _ASM_EXTABLE, or maybe even doing something like what Windows does
> with its __try/__except machinery which uses stack unwinding
> information.
> 
> From the responses here it's clear that there's no such thing in the
> kernel, at least that you guys know about. Thanks.
> 
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https://code.woboq.org/linux/linux/arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h.html


it is for user space coding...



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