On 11/06/2012 10:43:19 AM, Micha Nelissen wrote:
From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottw...@freescale.com]
>> Hmm I guess there is no simple solution then, since the "recover"
>> function also prints the kernel messages about the machine check
>> being in kernel mode without having checked whether it rea
From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottw...@freescale.com]
>> Hmm I guess there is no simple solution then, since the "recover"
>> function also prints the kernel messages about the machine check
>> being in kernel mode without having checked whether it really was in
>> kernel mode. In the past the user mod
On 11/06/2012 03:21:37 AM, Micha Nelissen wrote:
From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottw...@freescale.com]
> > Therefore I request to put this check back, and even to put the
> > removed code at the top of the machine check handler because
there is
> > no point in trying to recover from a user space b
From: Scott Wood [mailto:scottw...@freescale.com]
> > Therefore I request to put this check back, and even to put the
> > removed code at the top of the machine check handler because there is
> > no point in trying to recover from a user space bus error anyway.
>
> Why is there no point trying to
On 11/02/2012 06:48:40 AM, Martijn de Gouw wrote:
Hi,
The following commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=e49b1fae0ba4d06b29bd753a961abb447566bf4a
causes confusion, because it prints "Machine check in kernel mode"
also when the bus error is actu
Hi,
The following commit:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=commit;h=e49b1fae0ba4d06b29bd753a961abb447566bf4a
causes confusion, because it prints "Machine check in kernel mode" also when
the bus error is actually in user space. When using RapidIO memory mapped
If a machine check comes from userspace we send a SIGBUS to the task and
fail to printk anything.
If we are taking machine checks due to bad hardware we want to know about
it right away. Furthermore if we don't complain loudly then it will look
a lot like a bug in the userspace application, poten
