On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 08:13:56AM +0200, Stephan Mueller wrote: > > However, the heart of the problem is the following: This failure mode is > probabilistic in nature. A number of folks trying to push rules that the > failure does not need to be handled with a panic. > > A changed OSR only changes the probability, but that probability is always > strictly higher than zero. That's fine. There are many places in the kernel that will fail with a probably that is non-zero. It is considered to be acceptable as long as the value is negligible (e.g., equal or less than the probablility of cosmic rays hitting DRAM). But if it happens reproducibly it clearly is not acceptable. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
