Re: [PATCH 02/11] Add "handle page fault" PV helper.

[Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>]

On 11/02/2009 04:22 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Gleb Natapov<gleb@redhat.com>  wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> index f4cee90..14707dc 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
>> @@ -952,6 +952,9 @@ do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code)
>>   	int write;
>>   	int fault;
>>
>> +	if (arch_handle_page_fault(regs, error_code))
>> +		return;
>> +
>
> This patch is not acceptable unless it's done cleaner. Currently we
> already have 3 callbacks in do_page_fault() (kmemcheck, mmiotrace,
> notifier), and this adds a fourth one.

There's another alternative - add our own exception vector
for async page faults.  Not sure if that is warranted though,
especially if we already have other callbacks in do_page_fault()
and we can consolidate them.

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