page faults in the kernel

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Hi,

As far as I know a page fault while in the kernel causes an error and
all pages that are going to be accessed are mapped first. Is there a
reason behind this? Whatif the kernel mapped perhaps some pages on
demand upon a page fault? Is it not used because it is simpler not to,
or is there a different reasoning behind it?

Thanks,
Bahadir

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