Re: UVM fault check

2020-10-20 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 10:18:51 +0200 > From: Martin Pieuchot > > uvm_fault() is one of the most contended "entry point" of the kernel. > To reduce this contention I'm carefully refactoring this code to be able > to push the KERNEL_LOCK() inside the fault handler. > > The first aim of this

UVM fault check

2020-10-19 Thread Martin Pieuchot
uvm_fault() is one of the most contended "entry point" of the kernel. To reduce this contention I'm carefully refactoring this code to be able to push the KERNEL_LOCK() inside the fault handler. The first aim of this project would be to get the upper layer faults (cases 1A and 1B) out of ze big