Re: [PATCH 3/4] UML - kill processes instead of panicing kernel

2007-11-20 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 13:26:33 -0500 Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +extern void os_dump_core(void) __attribute__ ((noreturn)); We have a __noreturn helper for this. I'd have expected checkpatch to have a little whine about the space-before-(, but it didn't. - To unsubscribe from this list

[PATCH 3/4] UML - kill processes instead of panicing kernel

2007-11-20 Thread Jeff Dike
UML was panicing in the case of failures of libc calls which shouldn't happen. This is an overreaction since a failure from libc doesn't normally mean that kernel data structures are in an unknown state. Instead, the current process should just be killed if there is no way to recover. The case th