linux-kernel - Re: x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft

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Message-Id: <200712031938.08036.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 3 Dec 2007 19:38:07 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@...ell.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	hch@....de, ananth@...ibm.com, prasanna@...ibm.com,
	anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft

On Monday 03 December 2007 14:31, Jan Beulich wrote:
> Making the exception notifiers report the right (correct) information (and,
> specific to x86, ensuring they get called in the right place) was one of
> the fundamental things, and just now I see that this is being reverted for
> (in my eyes) no good reason:

FWIW I agree it would be better to put the notifiers back.

-Andi
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