On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:53:50AM +0000, Russell King wrote: > and ops is NULL, then this code will oops; you will get a full register > dump and backtrace. You can use this information along with markup_oops.pl > to find out where the problem is. You can't rely on the oops if the code runs in process context. The process may have address 0 mapped which would result in a security hole. We had two of these bugs last year. But I don't see any point in checking for dma_ops != NULL too. Any developer would mention such a bug long before init is started. Joerg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
