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

[Andi Kleen]

> You can set a kprobe on the x86 fault handler to do things like
> mmiotrace.

That would mean that if the kprobe faults it goes into an endless loop.
Most of do_page_fault() is not really safe for kprobes.

-Andi

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