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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: "Edgar E.Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, aurelien@aurel32.net

On 01/26/2011 10:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> What do I do on a page fault now? I could rerun the translator to find
> out which registers would be stuck in a temporary, but I have no way to
> actually read the temporary's value, as all register state is thrown
> away on a page fault IIUC.

When does a page-fault happen?

As far as I know, it does not happen at random.  Which seems to be 
what you are suggesting.


r~