Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] On paging of kernel VM. | Date | Tue, 10 Sep 2002 02:28:53 +0200 |
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On Monday 09 September 2002 11:20, David Woodhouse wrote: > But as I said, this means screwing with every fault handler. It doesn't > have to affect the fast path -- we can go looking for these vmas only in > the case where we've already tried looking for the appropriate pte in > init_mm and haven't found it. But it's still an intrusive change that would > need to be done on every architecture.
Why can't you go per-architecture and fall back to the slow way of doing it for architectures that don't have the new functionality yet?
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