Re: [PATCH] x86: ignore spurious faults

[Andi Kleen]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 08:02:11 Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >> /*
> >> + * Handle a spurious fault caused by a stale TLB entry.  This allows
> >
> > vmalloc_fault already has nearly the same logic. You should look
> > at sharing the code.
>
> Hm, I see what you mean, but its hard to see how to share much code
> there.  It's a case of "two lines common, one line different" repeated 4
> times or so.

The core common logic is checking if the fault agrees with the page tables.
If not do different things.

-Andi
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