On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 17:13 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote: > > For now I think you can not do this. vmalloc'ed memory can't be safely > > accessed from NMIs in x86 because that might fault. And faults from NMIs > > are not supported. They cause very bad things: return from fault calls > > iret which reenables NMI, so NMI can nest but in the meantime there is > > only one NMI stack, so that gets quickly messed up. > > > What kind of faults are you talking about here? TLB faults?
Page faults. vmalloc pte setup is lazy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ perfmon2-devel mailing list perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perfmon2-devel
