Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [SOLVED + PATCH]: documented Oops running big-endian reiserfs

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 3 Sep 2001 00:29:48 +0100 (BST)


> It will trap and run very slowly, but it wont' OOPS and
> it will give correct results.
>
> This is actually required behavior, I don't know why parisc
> is acting differently.

Several of the platforms only have trap fixups for a small subset of operations
that can legitimately occur on things like networking headers. It makes the
recovery code a lot smaller and cleaner.

Alan
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