Re: No user space access during irq?

Till Harbaum (harbaum@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 10:26:21 +0100


> > the machine just crashes. Am i not allowed to use the
> > above functions in an interrupt?

> Interrupt may happen during the timeslice of another process. put_user
> refers to the given address in the address space of *current* process.

Uhm, yes (i feel like an idiot). Is there a solution for my problem?
I know i am not allowed to call the scheduler during the irq. Is
there another way of gaining access to the correct user space?

Ciao,
Till

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