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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Revert "x86: optimize page faults like all other achitectures and kill notifier cruft"

>
> An alternative might be to come up with something decent and target 2.6.24.x

I don't see mmiotrace getting merged into a stable kernel... how do
however see it getting cleaned up for 2.6.25 now that people know how
fragile the kernel hooks for it are..

> We put the crappy code back in for 2.6.24 then take it out immediately
> after 2.6.24 and put something else in to support mmiotrace and perhaps the
> other new mystery features to which you refer below. hm.

(I think the other mystery feature is actually a Novell kernel debugger
but I'm not sure, madwifi use it for similiar reasons to mmiotrace I
think..)

> > > all that crap
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > But that's all speculation. Has anyone actually measured the pagefault
> > > latency impact of this change?

Message-Id: <20070427140516.523272684@de.ibm.com>
Subject: [patch 20/38] Minor fault path optimization.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:05:23 +0200

was a patch to do exactly that.. hch decided the feature wasn't useful and
posted a patch to remove it..

>
> That change has been in the mainline tree for nearly three months. All
> these affected parties have left it until the eve of 2.6.24 to actually
> tell us about it. This is causing me sympathy problems :(
>

Jan first complained on the 4th Decemeber last year, I'm just posting this
now because Linus said send him a patch to revert regressions rather than
just complain, I've prepared the patch to put back the old behaviour from
2.6.23. This was only brought to my notice this morning but I'm not going
to let that stop me from trying to find a correct fix rather than just
ripping the feature out..

I think we could apply the page fault cleanup patch I mentioned earlier on
top of this patch and get back the 300 cycles and that would make people
happy, it makes sense for mmiotrace to use kprobes hooks and not have to
do this stuff directly but if that is what is wanted the mmiotrace guys
can do it directly in the future.

Dave.


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