Re: [(resend)patch 3/7] Notify page fault call chain for ia64

From: Keshavamurthy Anil S
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 00:54:25 EST


On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:18:25PM +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> Why is register_page_fault_notifier defined in traps.c? Surely it
> should be in mm/fault.c, which is the only place that uses the chain.
Ah..that is because I blindly followed {register/unregister}_die_notifier()
implementation. It can moved to mm/faults.c and I will rework my patch.

>
> > trap_init (void)
> > {
> >Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c
> >===================================================================
> >--- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3.orig/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c
> >+++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm3/arch/ia64/mm/fault.c
> >@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ ia64_do_page_fault (unsigned long addres
> > /*
> > * This is to handle the kprobes on user space access instructions
> > */
> >- if (notify_die(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, code, TRAP_BRKPT,
> >+ if (notify_page_fault(DIE_PAGE_FAULT, "page fault", regs, code, TRAP_BRKPT,
> > SIGSEGV) == NOTIFY_STOP)
> > return;
>
> Since this is a critical path, please remove all references to
> notify_page_fault() and its register functions when CONFIG_KPROBES=n.
Yes, I agree with you and thanks for your feedback.

-Anil
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