Re: ia64 exceptions (Re: [RFC][CFT][PATCHSET v1] uaccess unification)

[Tony Luck]

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 1:08 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... and sure enough, on generic kernel (CONFIG_ITANIUM) that yields a nice
> shiny oops at precisely that insn.

The right fix here might be to delete all the CONFIG_ITANIUM paths. I
doubt that anyone is still running upstream kernels on Merced CPUs
(and if they are, it might be a kindness to them to make them stop).

> We really need tests for uaccess primitives.  That's not a recent regression,
> BTW - it had been that way since 2.3.48-pre2, as far as I can see.

Probably be handy for new architectures to test all the corner cases.

-Tony