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Would it make more sense for this to be a warning rather than a panic?  I 
forget what the original symptom was we were trying to address, but I think it 
was something like gem5 crashing or hanging somewhat mysteriously.  A warning 
should be as good as a panic message in eliminating the mystery, and the nice 
thing about a warning is that we don't have to worry as much about picking the 
right size.

- Steve Reinhardt


On April 29, 2012, 2:50 a.m., Gabe Black wrote:
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> (Updated April 29, 2012, 2:50 a.m.)
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> Review request for Default.
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> Description
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> Changeset 8974:bc9705db542b
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> Syscalls: panic when the length argument to mmap is excessive.
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> If the length argument to mmap is larger than the arbitrary but reasonable
> limit of 4GB, there's a good chance that the value is nonsense and not
> intentional. Rather than attempting to satisfy the mmap anyway, this change
> makes gem5 panic to make it more apparent what's going wrong.
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> Diffs
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>   src/sim/syscall_emul.hh d69afa89c2ee 
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> Diff: http://reviews.gem5.org/r/1168/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Gabe Black
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