double fault -> PAGE_KERNEL flagged memory

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Thu Nov 24 18:10:00 GMT 2005


roland wrote:

> Ok.  vmalloc makes sense for big buffers.  [...]

But less so for other stuff.  I'll get the translator to switch to
kmalloc as much as possible.

> In the current Linus kernel, the i386 do_page_fault routine is
> marked with __kprobes.  [...]

Maybe that decoration was missing from some transitively called function?

- FChE



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