Re: x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft

2007-12-03 Thread Andi Kleen
On Monday 03 December 2007 14:31, Jan Beulich wrote: > Making the exception notifiers report the right (correct) information (and, > specific to x86, ensuring they get called in the right place) was one of > the fundamental things, and just now I see that this is being reverted for > (in my eyes) n

Re: x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft

2007-12-03 Thread Jan Beulich
Ever since I started to try to get at least some fundamental infrastructure pieces merged for using NLKD on Linux I was told that direct calls out of exception handlers for the sake of an individual (and perhaps even small) sub-system is undesirable. Making the exception notifiers report the right