Re: [patch] i386: early pagefault handler

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
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