Re: [PATCH 5/6] From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

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Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes:

> When my test machine hits a BUG, it simply returns from the exception handler
> after a second or so and reexecutes the bug.
> 
> This is independent of the use-generic-bug changes and might be related to
> XMON.
> 
> So it's some unknonw bug, and this change makes the powerpc kernel behave
> better when that bug hits.

NACK as to this part:

> +			if (btt == BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG)
> +				do_exit(SIGSEGV);

since it makes the kernel behave distinctly *worse* for me.

Paul.
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