Re: Ugh in 2.1.60

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 09:34:27 -0500


Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Right. One thing I've also considered is to make a debugging version of
> "copy_to_user()" and friends, that _verify_ that the local interrupts are
> not blocked. That's a lot more likely to catch things than the page
> faulting behaviour (because page faults are reasonably rare, after all,
> especailly if you have enough memory like I do..)

That sounds good -- maybe print just one message, and identify the file
and line number. It would be good to get this all cleared up before
2.2.

Regards,
Bill