From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com, proski@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:32:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080108203235.GA772@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080108210638.5c9e093a@daedalus.pq.iki.fi>
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:06:38PM +0200, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
> - Is there anything coming to replace register_page_fault_notifier()?
no.
> - Has someone found another way to accomplish the same without patching
> the kernel?
no.
> - Should I start writing a patch to bring back the notifiers, based on
> the commit that removed them?
no.
> People started to complain to me that mmio-trace does not compile for
> 2.6.24. At least the Nouveau project is a regular user of mmio-trace
> for reverse-engineering, and the tool should be easy to use. Therefore
> I would prefer not to force casual contributors to patch their kernels
> as it might be too much for some. I am hoping that 2.6.25, if not
> 2.6.24, would contain a mechanism to accomplish what I need.
Please make mmio tracing generic enough so it works for every device and
submit it for inclusion as a config option.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-08 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-08 19:06 Replacement for page fault notifiers? Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-08 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-01-08 22:13 ` Dave Airlie
2008-01-09 0:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-09 18:18 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-09 18:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-09 19:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-09 20:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-10 0:42 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-10 0:47 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 0:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-10 0:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-10 1:01 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10 0:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-10 2:03 ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-10 2:21 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-10 2:30 ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-10 18:44 ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-09 20:24 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-09 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-09 20:41 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-09 20:44 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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