linux-kernel - Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?

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Message-Id: <1199838407.6734.83.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Wed, 09 Jan 2008 11:26:47 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Pekka Paalanen <pq@....fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jbeulich@...ell.com, proski@....org
Subject: Re: Replacement for page fault notifiers?


> Christoph,
> 
> it is generic code, it works by patching the module you load and is in
> no way nvidia specific, I think we should revert your chance
> as the notifiers have a valid user and one it has been planned to upstream..

Agreed, it looks like a sane enough user of page fault notifiers, it's
going to be upstream, and it's useful to fight evil binary drivers so
that sounds like a good justification to bring those back in :-)

Cheers,
Ben.


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