[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386
commitb71b5b652852db1b499d22aaabed8f5043acafad
authorAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:25:25 +0000 (26 00:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:58:22 +0000 (26 09:58 -0700)
tree82f5e0c8090515fc8886f26540a3b00ae603ae77
parent1bd858a507937cef6e8ca5efc6820a5744e73683
[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain for i386

Overloading of page fault notification with the notify_die() has performance
issues(since the only interested components for page fault is kprobes and/or
kdb) and hence this patch introduces the new notifier call chain exclusively
for page fault notifications their by avoiding notifying unnecessary
components in the do_page_fault() code path.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/i386/mm/fault.c
include/asm-i386/kdebug.h