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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 16:56:03 +0100
From: "Dave Gilbert (Home)" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
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To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: mmap, SIGBUS, and handling it
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David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Mihai RUSU <dizzy@roedu.net>
>    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