On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 05:06:31PM +0000, Paoloni, Gabriele wrote:
> From my understanding no_way_out and kill_it are different in principles:
> no_way_out is telling that an error occurred 'somewhere' in some CPU bank
> that requires the system to panic (e.g. PCC=1); kill_it is saying that the
> execution
> cannot be restarted where it left for the local CPU and hence we need to find
> an alternative solution as part of the recovery action. In practice it seems
> to
> me that kill_it is used to replace kill_me_maybe with kill_me_now in case
> the exception happened in user mode.
Bah, I got confused, sorry about that - you're right.
Btw, that kill_it should probably be called "kill_current_task" or so to
make it more clear.
Thx.
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