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Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:33:57 +0200
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kmemcheck v3
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> No. We need to not track the whole page to avoid recursive faults. So 
> for kmemcheck we absolutely do need cache_cache but we can, of course, 
> hide that under a alloc_cache() function that only uses the extra cache 
> when CONFIG_KMEMCHECK is enabled?

Btw, one option is to have a new _page flag_ so that we no longer need 
to look inside struct kmem_cache in the page fault handler.

			Pekka


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