general_protection result to die

2013-02-26 Thread horseriver
hi; does general_protection trap necessarily result to die ? when executing this instruction : mov(%eax),%gs ,$ip turns to be general_protection. then it comes to debug() I have no clue for what has happend leads kernel to go here . it denotes what? Are there some

Re: general_protection result to die

2013-02-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:23:34 +0800, horseriver said: does general_protection trap necessarily result to die ? Think for a bit - what other actions can reasonably be taken? You hit a GPF, it's obvious that the variables you're working on have been corrupted, so automatically continuing is