Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Kohn Emil Dan wrote: No, it isn't. Crashing is one of the best of the options in some situations. Imagine a bug in the filesystem that writes a zero byte at random places on the filesystem or even funnier, on the neighboring partitions where you have installed another operating system. (yes

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:49:41PM +0200, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il wrote: Hello, Maybe this is a boker-tov-eliyahu thing, but still. I've installed Fedora 12, just to find out that it warns me about kernel oopses. In

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-16 Thread Eli Billauer
Hi, Just to wrap the story up: I checked the source code. The offending oops comes from a line 390 in hpet.c, which is the WARN_ON_ONCE call below: kernel code /* * We need to read back the CMP register to make sure that * what we wrote hit the chip before we compare it to the

Re: [Haifux] Kernel oops, so what?

2010-01-16 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: Hi, Just to wrap the story up: I checked the source code. The offending oops comes from a line 390 in hpet.c, which is the WARN_ON_ONCE call below: kernel code /* * We need to read back the CMP register to make