Page fault on vmalloc'ed memory

Li Yang-R58472 r58472 at freescale.com
Wed May 5 15:19:33 EST 2010


Hi all,

I got a weird page fault oops on vmalloc'ed area.  Digging into the powerpc do_page_fault(), I found there is no handling of address in kernel space unlike the x86 counter part.  Does any one know how we deal with the vmalloc'ed area on powerpc?  Thanks a lot.

- Leo


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