Re: [PATCH] get_wchan on running task sometimes MCAs the machine.

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On 5/17/07, Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx> wrote:

David Mosberger
reckons that unwind should never cause an error, maybe we should be
looking at adding more checks to the unwind code to cope with spurious
addresses?

That's correct.  If the unwinder causes MCAs, it's broken.  Robin, can
you look into why the memory-access safety-checks in the unwinder
aren't sufficient to avoid the MCAs you're seeing?

 --david
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