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Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani abd4f7505b x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3
This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a
segfault happens.  A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools
that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly between
debug.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing echo 0 >
/proc/sys/debug/exception-trace)

Also, all of the lines being printed are now using printk_ratelimit() to
deny the ability of DoS from a local user with a program like the
following:

main()
{
       while (1)
               if (!fork()) *(int *)0 = 0;
}

This new revision also includes the fix that Andrew did which got rid of
new sysctl that was added to the system in earlier versions of this.
Also, 'show-unhandled-signals' sysctl has been renamed back to the old
'exception-trace' to avoid breakage of people's scripts.

AK: Enabling by default for i386 will be likely controversal, but let's see what happens
AK: Really folks, before complaining just fix your segfaults
AK: I bet this will find a lot of silent issues

Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[ Personally, I've found the complaints useful on x86-64, so I'm all for
  this. That said, I wonder if we could do it more prettily..   -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
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Makefile [PATCH] x86_64: Flexmap for 32bit and randomized mappings for 64bit 2006-01-16 23:18:35 -08:00
extable.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
fault.c x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
init.c x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
ioremap.c Revert "[PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation" 2007-05-07 08:44:24 -07:00
k8topology.c x86_64: make k8topology multi-core aware 2007-07-21 18:37:14 -07:00
mmap.c Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h> 2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
numa.c x86_64: disable srat when numa emulation succeeds 2007-07-21 18:37:14 -07:00
pageattr.c x86: Always flush pages in change_page_attr 2007-07-21 18:37:07 -07:00
srat.c x86_64: fake apicid_to_node mapping for fake numa 2007-07-21 18:37:10 -07:00