Re: [PATCH v3 04/12] Add "handle page fault" PV helper.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 16:44 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:31:07PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:12 +0200, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > Allow paravirtualized guest to do special handling for some page faults.
> > > 
> > > The patch adds one 'if' to do_page_fault() function. The call is patched
> > > out when running on physical HW. I ran kernbech on the kernel with and
> > > without that additional 'if' and result were rawly the same:
> > 
> > So why not program a different handler address for the #PF/#GP faults
> > and avoid the if all together?
> I would gladly use fault vector reserved by x86 architecture, but I am
> not sure Intel will be happy about it.

Whatever are we doing to end up in do_page_fault() as it stands? Surely
we can tell the CPU to go elsewhere to handle faults?

Isn't that as simple as calling set_intr_gate(14, my_page_fault)
somewhere on the cpuinit instead of the regular page_fault handler?
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