Re: [page fault tracepoint 1/2] Add page fault trace event definitions

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 05/08/2013 11:46 PM, zhangwei(Jovi) wrote:
> On 2013/5/9 14:05, Francis Deslauriers wrote:
>> Add page_fault_entry and page_fault_exit event definitions. It will
>> allow each architecture to instrument their page faults.
> 
> I'm wondering if this tracepoint could handle other page faults,
> like faults in kernel memory(vmalloc, kmmio, etc...)
> 
> And if we decide to support those faults, add a type annotate in TP_printk
> would be much helpful for user, to let user know what type of page faults happened.
> 

The plan for x86 was to switch the IDT so that any exception could get a
trace event without any overhead in normal operation.  This has been in
the process for quite some time but looks like it was getting very close.

	-hpa


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