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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 13:24:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler
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On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>
> Page faults during kernel initialization can be hard to diagnose.
> 
> Add a handler that prints the fault address, EIP and top of stack
> when an early page fault happens.

Is there really any reason to do this in assembler? The "start_kernel" 
call into C happens not that much later, and none of what the routine does 
seems to really be especially assembler-friendly. 

			Linus