Page fault on vmalloc'ed memory

[Timur Tabi]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Li Yang-R58472 <r58472 at freescale.com> wrote:
> 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.

Can you be more specific?  Post the oops message, and tell us the
specific x86 code that you think is missing.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale