Re: architectures that prevent freezing
Re: architectures that prevent freezing
- Subject: Re: architectures that prevent freezing
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:55:31 -0700
On May 11, 2012, at 9:23 AM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
> While playing with GPU programming, I had a lot of such freeze, and they never locked the CPU. I was always able to connect to my machine though SSH.
So a regular user process can permanently lock up the display, requiring a reboot, just by executing some bad GPU code?! That’s kind of a bad privilege violation and could be considered a DoS exploit.
—Jens
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