Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers 0.5 for Linux 2.6.17 (with probe management)

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> but tracing a raw pagefault at the arch level is a bad idea anyway, we 
> want to trace __handle_mm_fault(). That way you can avoid having to 
> modify every architecture's pagefault handler ...
> 

The problem with __handle_mm_fault() is that the struct pt_regs * is not
passed to this function. An event containing both the address where the fault
occurs and the instruction pointer that caused the fault is very useful.

Mathieu

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