Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/arm/arm32
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 10/16/2003 15:41:12
>
> On Thursday, October 16, 2003, at 03:25 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>
> > True, but in that case the worst that would happen is that we would
> > take a
> > second fault after adding the page read-only on the first fault.
>
> Except that we specifically changed the pmap_enter() interface in order
> to avoid double faults like these. It would really suck to reintroduce
> double faults for this (pretty common) case.
>
> -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
>
But then, so would having to decode every Thumb instruction.
R.