Re: [RFC] Virtual 8086 mode support for kernel drivers

On 2008-04-29 at 00:45:53 [+0200], Jan Klötzke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I picked up Ingo's suggestion for a "page_fault_callback" to catch unhandled
> page faults in vm86 mode. See the last patch in the series for the details.

I was actually thinking of just reusing the thread::fault_handler field. Its 
use is currently only defined for page faults in kernel mode, so there wouldn't 
be any collisions (it is nesting anyway, since one is usually required to reset 
it to its previous value). One could also use a (nameless) union to avoid 
casting.

BTW, I believe it is preferrable to add only *.cpp files in the kernel. We have 
a few headers that are quite messy, since they actually use C++ features, but 
are included by *.c files. We are (very slowly) renaming *.c files to *.cpp, 
and I was hoping we would be able to clean up the headers one day.

CU, Ingo

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