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Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 16:44:27 +0200
From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>
To: "Andreas Kleen" <ak@suse.de>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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Subject: DIE_GPF vs. DIE_PAGE_FAULT/DIE_TRAP
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What is the reason for notify_die(DIE_GPF, ...) to be run late in the GP
fault handler (on both i386 and x86-64), while for other exceptions it
gets run first thing (as I would have expected for all exceptions)?

Thanks, Jan