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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Generic page fault (Was: libsigsegv ....)
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2015 09:50:29 +1100
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On Sun, 2015-03-01 at 09:16 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> So for error handling, I'm trying to simply return the VM_FAULT_* flags
> from generic_page_fault see where that takes us. That's a way to avoid
> passing an arch specific struct around. It also allows my hack to
> account major faults with the hypervisor to be done outside the generic
> code completely (no hook).

I suspect sparc64 will defeat the "not passing an arch struct around"
though... oh well.

Ben.