[Linux-ia64] determining read or write on a page fault

["Hoeflinger, Jay P" <jay.p.hoeflinger@intel.com>]

We are writing software that handles page faults on an Itanium system, and
so have registered a SIGSEGV
handler.  We think we know how to determine the address being referenced,
but don't know how to determine
whether the access was a read or a write.

We believe that the handler entry point should be:

void
segv_handler(
        int                  sig,
       siginfo_t *sip, 
        struct sigcontext *scp)

and the address of the access therefore should be:

((caddr_t)sip->si_addr)

but how do we determine READ vs WRITE?

In IA-32 linux, we could check the PF_ERR bit.  Is there an equivalent for
IA-64?

Thanks

Naveen Neelakantam and Jay Hoeflinger


Jay Hoeflinger, jay.p.hoeflinger@intel.com
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