Re: mmap, SIGBUS, and handling it

[Dave Gilbert]

David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Mihai RUSU <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 18:37:21 +0300 (EEST)
>    
>    PS: why signal(SIGBUS,SIG_IGN) doesnt work, but a user handler its called
>    if set with signal(SIGBUS,handle_sigbus) ?
> 
> How would you like the kernel to "ignore" a page fault that cannot be
> serviced?

Well imagining you really wanted to do it you could skip a store 
instruction or put a dummy value in the register that something is being 
loaded into.

Dave