On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> I didn't realize that userspace was allowed to run with interrupts
> disabled.
It isn't, normally. You *can* try to do it by using iopl(), but it's not
practical. It's certainly not practical to expect a page fault to not
enable them again, since we obviously need interrupts enabled just to
handle any IO.
So don't worry about it.
Linus
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