On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:33:08AM +0200, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Not really, I would say it's just an idea to remove tlbex.c from the > kernel code and to make it a tool called during compile time to > generate a handler skeleton which would be finalized by the kernel. IRIX was assembling its TLB exception handler from a few such skeletons or rather a few fractions. That works reasonably well as long as there are not too many variants - but Linux supports about anything on earth. Another disadvantage of the IRIX approach was that the fragments are written in assembler but the tacking together happens in C code so the code is split in a somewhat unnatural way over a few files. Ralf
