On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 10:20:16AM -0500, John David Anglin wrote: > > Honestly, I can't decide whether to apply this. It really should never > > happen in the kernel, since the kernel can guarantee it won't get the > > access rights failure (highest privilege level, and can set %sr and > > %protid to whatever it wants.) > > I believe this change should be applied because we enable P and the > hardware can generate the exception. Yes, it should never happen, but > the coding to prevent this occurring is very subtle. > If we're going to paper over a bug like this, we might as well just turn the P-bit off... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
