Re: 2.6.0-test9-mm4 (only) and vmware

[Voicu Liviu]

May I have the patch of this vmware fix to run a few tests?
Best regards,
Liviu

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:34:57PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>  
>
> > > I'm going to ruminate on non-fatal methods of complaining loudly.
> > >      
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:40:37PM -0500, Christopher Li wrote:
>  
>
> > SPARSE checker?
> >    
>
> I was thinking of teaching the fault handlers to complain about
> ->nopage() methods returning invalid results in a non-fatal manner,
> possibly with code consolidation.
>
> e.g. every arch does:
>
> 	switch (handle_mm_fault(...)) {
> 		case VM_FAULT_MINOR:
> 			tsk->min_flt++;
> 			break;
> 		case VM_FAULT_MAJOR:
> 			tsk->maj_flt++;
> 			break;
> 		case VM_FAULT_SIGBUS:
> 			goto do_sigbus;
> 		case VM_FAULT_OOM:
> 			goto out_of_memory;
> 		default:
> 			BUG();
> 	}
>
> which is vaguely repetitive. It's not immediately clear how to
> consolidate gotos, which is where the thought starts happening.
>
> The other part was replacing default: BUG() with something that
> complained (e.g. putting print_symbol() to use on the ->nopage()
> method) and treating the invalid statuses like OOM, but that's
> not really very hard to do (I posted something that did some
> crude reporting of that kind already to handle the sound/ bogons).
>
>
> -- wli
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