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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>, Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
	Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jbeulich@novell.com
Subject: Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:56:47 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1199926607.6734.158.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080109164241.7daa5770@laptopd505.fenrus.org>


> I'm btw all in favor of making mmio tracing full fledged kernel infrastructure.
> This doesn't mean "notifier" imo; this means a real flag in the struct page,
> and then the page fault code can do
> 
> if (page->flags & FLAG_MMIO_TRACED)
> 	mmio_trace(page, regs, whatever..);
> 
> (probably surrounded by a CONFIG_ ifdef)
> THis is a TON lighter than a notifier chain, and actually what you want,
> you don't really want a notifier, you want a call back when a special kind of
> page is touched.
> 

Except that MMIO has no struct page's...

Cheers,
Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-08 19:06 Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-08 20:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-08 22:13   ` Dave Airlie
2008-01-09  0:26     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-09 18:18       ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-09 18:21         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-09 19:58           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-09 20:22             ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-10  0:42               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-10  0:47                 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10  0:55                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-01-10  0:58                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-01-10  1:01                     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-10  0:56                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-01-10  2:03                 ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-10  2:21                   ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-10  2:30                     ` Matt Mackall
2008-01-10 18:44               ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-01-09 20:24             ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-09 20:26               ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-01-09 20:41                 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-01-09 20:44                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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