On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 07:44:07PM -0500, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Alan owns the change, and it was done on purpose, and the behavior you
> > see is correct, the Alpha port is the problem.
> >
> > Alpha is buggy for reporting exceptions wrt. user space accesses
> > in the kernel logs, in fact it's a possible DoS attack on Alpha/Linux
> > machines.
> >
> > So Alpha should be fixed.
> >
>
> True but the simple page copy breaks in fun ways on some kernels and with
> smb/ncpmount, so Im going to revert it to get 2.2.14 out of the door, then
> give in and do a fs==ds test for 2.2.15pre
In that case we need to find another solution for sparc64 though into
2.2.14.
Cheers,
Jakub
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Jakub Jelinek | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj
Linux version 2.3.29 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips)
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