Re: SMP irq question

David S. Miller (davem@caip.rutgers.edu)
Sun, 18 May 1997 18:36:29 -0400


From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.nmt.edu (Victor Yodaiken)
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 16:33:12 -0600

C) Am I correct in assuming that the critical material to flush,
fter bootup, will be in user space.

Mostly, but there are cases where kernel things are flushed (for
example, during vmalloc()'s, calls to remap_page_range() on kernel
space, and when modules are loaded/unloaded)

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