* Scott Garfinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tend to agree with the spirit of Andi's comment -- disabling this
> will (I think) make the rare time when it happens into something
> impossible to debug without a new kernel and reproducing the problem.
in the past couple of years i saw double-faults at a rate of perhaps
once a year - and i frequently hack lowlevel glue code! So the
usefulness of this code in the field, and especially on an embedded
platforms, is extremely limited.
in fact, i've experienced triple-faults (== spontaneous reboots) to be
at least 10 times more frequent than double-faults! I.e. _if_ your
kernel (or hardware) is screwed up to the degree that it would
double-fault, it will much more likely also triple-fault.
IIRC we added the double-fault handler to debug the PAE code originally.
Now years down the road, making it configurable-out if EMBEDDED makes
lots of sense.
Ingo
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