Re: meaning of vmalloc shortcut comment in fault.c

2001-06-05 Thread Brian Gerst
Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > Can someone elaborate on why it's bad to refer to tsk directly below (this > is a 2.4.5 change in x86) and why it's needed on x86 and not other archs.. > > What should I do for an arch that does not have a "cr3" machine register > to check with ? %cr3 is the page table po

meaning of vmalloc shortcut comment in fault.c

2001-06-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
Can someone elaborate on why it's bad to refer to tsk directly below (this is a 2.4.5 change in x86) and why it's needed on x86 and not other archs.. What should I do for an arch that does not have a "cr3" machine register to check with ? /BW vmalloc_fault: { /*