Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 01:08:31 +0200 (EET) From: Heikki Suonsivu <hsu@clinet.fi> To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de (Stefan Esser) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/929: NCR support broken? Message-ID: <199601052308.BAA05016@katiska.clinet.fi> In-Reply-To: se@zpr.uni-koeln.de's message of 4 Jan 1996 13:13:41 %2B0200 References: <199601041005.AA15056@Sysiphos>
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On Jan 4, 6:12, Heikki Suonsivu wrote:
} } Jan 3 11:18:53 katiska /kernel: ncr?: scatter/gather failed (residue=814260224)
} A request to read 800MB of data has been
} issued, but there was no way to setup a
} In that case this should generate a panic, not an error message ?
Don't think that the driver should panic in
that situation in general ...
If kernel requests a read which is larger than physical memory, it can be
pretty sure something in the kernel is seriously confused. And if a kernel
is seriosly confused, anything, including filesystem corruption, may occur.
I stick with my words, anything like this is a panic situation.
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