Re: [patch 2/2] x86, fpu: lazy allocation of FPU area - v3

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Mar 06 2008 - 15:53:26 EST


Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> Well, we should not be sending SIGSEGV...? SIGBUS would be cleaner, or
> SIGKILL... what happens when userland tries to catch this one?

When this happens the kernel is already in a severe out of memory
situation and no matter what you do user land will not be able
to handle this well.

-Andi
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