make fault notifier unconditional and export it It's needed for external debuggers and overhead is very small. Also make the actual notifier chain they use static Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Index: linux/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c +++ linux/arch/x86_64/mm/fault.c @@ -40,8 +40,7 @@ #define PF_RSVD (1<<3) #define PF_INSTR (1<<4) -#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES -ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain); +static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(notify_page_fault_chain); /* Hook to register for page fault notifications */ int register_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) @@ -49,11 +48,13 @@ int register_page_fault_notifier(struct vmalloc_sync_all(); return atomic_notifier_chain_register(¬ify_page_fault_chain, nb); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(register_page_fault_notifier); int unregister_page_fault_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(¬ify_page_fault_chain, nb); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(unregister_page_fault_notifier); static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str, struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig) @@ -67,13 +68,6 @@ static inline int notify_page_fault(enum }; return atomic_notifier_call_chain(¬ify_page_fault_chain, val, &args); } -#else -static inline int notify_page_fault(enum die_val val, const char *str, - struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig) -{ - return NOTIFY_DONE; -} -#endif void bust_spinlocks(int yes) {