Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Jan 08 2008 - 19:27:45 EST



> Christoph,
>
> it is generic code, it works by patching the module you load and is in
> no way nvidia specific, I think we should revert your chance
> as the notifiers have a valid user and one it has been planned to upstream..

Agreed, it looks like a sane enough user of page fault notifiers, it's
going to be upstream, and it's useful to fight evil binary drivers so
that sounds like a good justification to bring those back in :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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