Re: [PATCH] x86: endless page faults in mount_block_root for Linux2.6 - v2

[H. Peter Anvin]

Henry Nestler wrote:
> Shure, the "out of range address" was from buggy driver development.
> But not of adresses should kill the complete system.

Actually, that's the normal thing to happen for kernel code poking at an 
address it shouldn't.

It should do it cleanly, via an oops, though.

	-hpa
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