Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@linuxcare.com.au)
Date: Wed Feb 21 2001 - 21:05:04 EST


In message <E14VXxY-0001wy-00@the-village.bc.nu> you write:
> > 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

We can? Woah, please explain.

Rusty.

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