[PATCH for review] [123/145] i386: make fault notifier unconditional and export it

Andi Kleen
2006-08-10T19:48:10Z

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It's needed for external debuggers and overhead is very small.

Also make the actual notifier chain they use static

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

---
arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c | 12 +++---------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c
@@ -40,8 +40,7 @@
#define PF_RSVD (1<<3)
#define PF_INSTR (1<<4)

-#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
-ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain);
+static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain);

/* Hook to register for page fault notifications */
int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
@@ -49,11 +48,13 @@ int register_page_fault_notifier(struct
vmalloc_sync_all();
return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_page_fault_notifier);

int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
{
return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&notify_page_fault_chain, nb);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_page_fault_notifier);

static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
@@ -67,13 +68,6 @@ static inline int notify_page_fault(enum
};
return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&notify_page_fault_chain, val, &args);
}
-#else
-static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str,
- struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
-{
- return NOTIFY_DONE;
-}
-#endif

void bust_spinlocks(int yes)
{