Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:01:26 +0000 (GMT)

> This is a while back, but I thought the solution Philipp and I came up
> with was to simply used a rw semaphore for this, which was taken (read
> only) on page fault if we have to scan the exception table.

We can take page faults in interrupt handlers in 2.4 so I had to use a
spinlock, but that sounds the same

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