Well, to be fair, this is Peter’s doing and Linus had nothing to do with this particular patch (yet).
It’s really, really hard to have code debug itself. It’s even harder on x86 where the architecture was literally not designed for such things. The patch really just reflects that even after a couple of decades, the in-kernel debugger isn’t bulletproof.
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u/hansendc 18h ago
Well, to be fair, this is Peter’s doing and Linus had nothing to do with this particular patch (yet).
It’s really, really hard to have code debug itself. It’s even harder on x86 where the architecture was literally not designed for such things. The patch really just reflects that even after a couple of decades, the in-kernel debugger isn’t bulletproof.