On Tuesday 02 May 2006 12:29, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:

> For some reason, you seem to be assuming I was referring to x86_64. i386
> does not have special reserved NMI stacks.

Actually it has. It's using a gate for some time.

> 
> > > After a crash the state of the system is unknown 
> > > and we may end up overflowing the stack or further bloating if it is
> > > already bloated. For this reason kdump is very likely to fail in stack
> > > overflow scenarios. I will elaborate on this in the next email.
> > 
> > I don't think you understand how x86-64 exception handling works.
> I think I do. I was not talking about the x86-64 case in particular.

At least I was discussing an x86-64 patch here.

-Andi
 
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