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Re: double fault -> PAGE_KERNEL flagged memory

From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 24 Nov 2005 13:10:50 -0500
Subject: Re: double fault -> PAGE_KERNEL flagged memory
References: <20051123215633.GA8063@Krystal> <20051123223409.9E2DB1809B9@magilla.sf.frob.com>

roland wrote:

> Ok.  vmalloc makes sense for big buffers.  [...]

But less so for other stuff.  I'll get the translator to switch to
kmalloc as much as possible.

> In the current Linus kernel, the i386 do_page_fault routine is
> marked with __kprobes.  [...]

Maybe that decoration was missing from some transitively called function?

- FChE

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