On 11/20/2013 09:25 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <h...@zytor.com> writes: >> >> We're talking user space here, which has different requirement (COW, >> memory protection, ...) which means it is not really the same code. You >> can't take a page fault while patching the kernel. > > The syscall pins the page, then it calls the kernel code. > There are no page faults during patching. >
But you don't need to pin anything if you just do it in userspace. Again, it is particularly poignant for large batched operations. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/