Re: [PATCH RFC 1/4] Generic BUG handling.

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:10:19AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On 29 Sep 2006 10:57:45 +0200
> Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
> 
> > > Some architectures (powerpc) implement WARN using the same mechanism;
> > > if the illegal instruction was the result of a WARN, then report_bug()
> > > returns 1; otherwise it returns 0.
> > 
> > In theory we could do that on x86 too (and skipping the instruction), 
> > the only problem 
> > is that the only guaranteed to fault opcode is ud2 :/. Ok maybe we could
> > reserve some int XXX vector.
> > 
> > % gid WARN_ON | grep -v arch | wc -l
> > 299
> 
> powerpc sets a bit in the __LINE__ number to indicate that it was a
> WARN_ON.  That'll work on all architectures.

We still would need an architecture dependent way to skip the opcode
though (just returning would raise it again). On x86

regs->eip += 2     (rip on x86-64) 

should be enough 

-Andi
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