Re: Question about x86/mm/gup.c's use of disabled interrupts

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Shentino wrote:
> But, does a CPU running a task in userspace effectively have a read 
> lock on the page tables?

No.  A process has its own user pagetable which the kernel maintains on 
its behalf.  The kernel will briefly take locks on it while doing 
modifications, mostly to deal with multithreaded usermode code running 
on multiple cpus.

   J
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