Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:37:36 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft" |
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:34:46AM +0000, Dave Airlie wrote: > > [This an initial RFC but I'd like to have this patch in before 2.6.24 goes > final as it really breaks this useful feature] > > mmiotrace the MMIO access tracer used to reverse engineer binary blobs > used this notifier interface and is planned on being pushed upstream. > > Having users able to just use the tracer module without having to rebuild > their kernel to add in a page fault handler hack means we get a lot > greater coverage for reverse engineering efforts. > > Signed-off-by: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
I never liked the original patch.
-Andi
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