Re: [git pull] core, x86: make LIST_POISON less deadly

[Avi Kivity]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > We dont do any instruction decoding in #GP handlers to figure out what 
> > happened, while in the pagefault case we know which address faulted, 
> > etc.
> >     
>
> Why would we care? It would be very obvious from the instruction 
> disassembly plus the register contents. No need to decode instructions.
>   

We could add a printk to the #GP handler that alerts the reader that a 
poisoned list is suspected, if we find the address pattern in one of the 
registers.

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