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From: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 06:51:22 -0500
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Subject: Re: Page fault on vmalloc'ed memory
To: Li Yang-R58472 <r58472@freescale.com>
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On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Li Yang-R58472 <r58472@freescale.com> wrot=
e:
> I got a weird page fault oops on vmalloc'ed area. =A0Digging into the pow=
erpc do_page_fault(), I found there is no handling of address in kernel spa=
ce unlike the x86 counter part. =A0Does any one know how we deal with the v=
malloc'ed area on powerpc? =A0Thanks a lot.

Can you be more specific?  Post the oops message, and tell us the
specific x86 code that you think is missing.

--=20
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale