alignment faults in 3.6

Russell King - ARM Linux linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Tue Oct 23 12:58:41 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:30:14PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 06:51 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> 
> <snip switch out the might_fault __get_user for atomic
> probe_kernel_address related discussion>
> 
> > Okay, this should fix the issue...  I've only compile tested it so far.
> > Rob, as you have a way to trigger this easily, can you give this patch
> > a go and let me know if it solves your problem?  Thanks.
> 
> Russell, can you let me know the status of this patch? I don't see it in
> your tree, and I think I might have missed a followup patch from you? It
> seems to solve a real problem with in-kernel faults during the dump_mem
> in general, even beyond just an alignment fault.

I was waiting for someone to say "I saw a problem and it works"...
Would be nice to have a Tested-by tag against it...



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