patl@cag.lcs.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti) writes:
> Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > You can just do this:
> >
> > void user_segv_handler (int sig, struct sigcontext_struct context)
> > {
> > unsigned long fault_address = context.cr2;
> > // ...
> > }
>
> Ah. So what is cr2, and where is it documented? Is there a reason
> why the same information should not be copied to the si_addr field of
> the siginfo_t as the documentation says?
It is documented in the intel ia32 architecture documentation ->
http://developer.intel.com
SIGSEGV is not a queued signal currently, and only queued signals
can carry a siginfo_t. I believe there are patches to change that,
but they are not in the standard kernel.
-Andi
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