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Date:      Wed, 21 Oct 1998 07:27:38 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Handling page faults in user space ? 
Message-ID:  <199810211427.HAA02579@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Oct 1998 08:44:43 BST." <199810210744.IAA09732@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> 

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>causes first a fault and then the faulting instruction is restarted and
>produces the right output. What is missing is how to know, in the
>signal handler, the fault virtual address and maybe IP associated to
>the faulting instruction.
>
>Ideas anyone ?

   Yes, that is supported. The fault VA is passed back via the sigcontext
struct, sc_err. A pointer to the sigcontext is passed into the signal
handler as the third arg. See the sigaction(2) man page.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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