Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753151AbYAINVE (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:21:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751024AbYAINUy (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:20:54 -0500 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:50525 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbYAINUx (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 08:20:53 -0500 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:19:58 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: David Miller cc: hch@lst.de, airlied@linux.ie, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Andi Kleen , pq@iki.fi, jbeulich@novell.com, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft" In-Reply-To: <20080108.232223.211829980.davem@davemloft.net> Message-ID: References: <20080109071727.GA10695@lst.de> <20080108.232223.211829980.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 472 Lines: 16 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( ... ); -- Jiri Kosina -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/