Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:22:56 +0000 (GMT)

> > We can take page faults in interrupt handlers in 2.4 so I had to use a
> > spinlock, but that sounds the same
>
> We can? Woah, please explain.

vmalloc does a lazy load of the tlb. That can lead to the exception table
being walked on an IRQ

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