linux/arch/x86_64
Masoud Asgharifard Sharbiani abd4f7505b x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3
This patch makes the i386 behave the same way that x86_64 does when a
segfault happens.  A line gets printed to the kernel log so that tools
that need to check for failures can behave more uniformly between
debug.show_unhandled_signals sysctl variable to 0 (or by doing echo 0 >
/proc/sys/debug/exception-trace)

Also, all of the lines being printed are now using printk_ratelimit() to
deny the ability of DoS from a local user with a program like the
following:

main()
{
       while (1)
               if (!fork()) *(int *)0 = 0;
}

This new revision also includes the fix that Andrew did which got rid of
new sysctl that was added to the system in earlier versions of this.
Also, 'show-unhandled-signals' sysctl has been renamed back to the old
'exception-trace' to avoid breakage of people's scripts.

AK: Enabling by default for i386 will be likely controversal, but let's see what happens
AK: Really folks, before complaining just fix your segfaults
AK: I bet this will find a lot of silent issues

Signed-off-by: Masoud Sharbiani <masouds@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[ Personally, I've found the complaints useful on x86-64, so I'm all for
  this. That said, I wonder if we could do it more prettily..   -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
..
boot Update .gitignore for arch/i386/boot 2007-07-19 14:32:38 -07:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
ia32 x86_64: ia32entry adjustments 2007-07-21 18:37:09 -07:00
kernel x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
lib Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2007-02-26 14:17:50 -08:00
mm x86: i386-show-unhandled-signals-v3 2007-07-22 11:03:37 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
pci x86-64: introduce struct pci_sysdata to facilitate sharing of ->sysdata 2007-07-21 18:37:14 -07:00
vdso x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu 2007-07-21 18:37:08 -07:00
defconfig x86_64: Update defconfig 2007-07-21 18:37:07 -07:00
Kconfig x86_64: Quicklist support for x86_64 2007-07-21 18:37:09 -07:00
Kconfig.debug Allow DEBUG_RODATA and KPROBES to co-exist 2007-06-21 16:02:50 -07:00
Makefile x86_64: Add vDSO for x86-64 with gettimeofday/clock_gettime/getcpu 2007-07-21 18:37:08 -07:00