linux-kernel - Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/17] RFC: userfault v2

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Date:	Wed, 29 Oct 2014 17:56:59 +0000
From:	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@...aro.org>
To:	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/17] RFC: userfault v2

On 29 October 2014 17:46, Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com> wrote:
> After some chat during the KVMForum I've been already thinking it
> could be beneficial for some usage to give userland the information
> about the fault being read or write

...I wonder if that would let us replace the current nasty
mess we use in linux-user to detect read vs write faults
(which uses a bunch of architecture-specific hacks including
in some cases "look at the insn that triggered this SEGV and
decode it to see if it was a load or a store"; see the
various cpu_signal_handler() implementations in user-exec.c).

-- PMM
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