Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all otherachitectures and kill notifier cruft"

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 08:48:51 EST


From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:19:58 +0100 (CET)

> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, David Miller wrote:
>
> > You can set a kprobe on the x86 fault handler to do things like
> > mmiotrace.
>
> Currently, on x86, you can not, because:
>
> fastcall void __kprobes do_page_fault( ... );

Read Ingo's reply.
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