From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753945AbYAIA1o (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:27:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751734AbYAIA1e (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:27:34 -0500 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:53767 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751026AbYAIA1d (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 19:27:33 -0500 Subject: Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers? From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Reply-To: benh@kernel.crashing.org To: Dave Airlie Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Pekka Paalanen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com, proski@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970801081413n307ab07aq462a9fff014143ae@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080108210638.5c9e093a@daedalus.pq.iki.fi> <20080108203235.GA772@infradead.org> <21d7e9970801081413n307ab07aq462a9fff014143ae@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:26:47 +1100 Message-Id: <1199838407.6734.83.camel@pasglop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Christoph, > > it is generic code, it works by patching the module you load and is in > no way nvidia specific, I think we should revert your chance > as the notifiers have a valid user and one it has been planned to upstream.. Agreed, it looks like a sane enough user of page fault notifiers, it's going to be upstream, and it's useful to fight evil binary drivers so that sounds like a good justification to bring those back in :-) Cheers, Ben.