illegal instructions / irqs disabled warning

[Kumar Gala]

On Dec 15, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:

> On Do, 2005-12-15 at 08:04 -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
>
>> Out of interest, is there a reason you dont handle the emulation in
>> user space?
>
> I'm not even interested in emulating that at all, the kernel just
> checked if it could emulate it (couldn't, so my program died with
> SIGILL)...
> To tell the truth, I was just testing what would happen and wrote a
> buggy program.

Ahh, you should check out LTP its got some tests like this which  
generate random instruction images and see what happens.  Helps  
finding kernel bugs.

- kumar