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    x86, mm: fault.c, give another attempt at prefetch handing before SIGBUS · cd1b68f0
    Ingo Molnar authored
    
    
    Impact: extend prefetch handling on 64-bit
    
    Currently there's an extra is_prefetch() check done in do_sigbus(),
    which we only do on 32 bits.
    
    This is a last-ditch check before we terminate a task, so it's worth
    giving prefetch instructions another chance - should none of our
    existing quirks have caught a prefetch instruction related spurious
    fault.
    
    The only risk is if a prefetch causes a real sigbus, in that case
    we'll not OOM but try another fault. But this code has been on
    32-bit for a long time, so it should be fine in practice.
    
    So do this on 64-bit too - and thus remove one more #ifdef.
    
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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