On Wednesday 28 September 2005 16:22, Young Koh wrote:
> so, as my understanding, sigsetjmp() is used for returning an error
> when there is a userspace and/or kernelspace address faulting in both
> skas and tt modes. and i386 implementation works the same way, i
> guess.

> my one quick question is (it could sound stupid, 
Not at all.
> but) that why there 
> may be a kernelspace faulting? kernel must correct and shouldn't
> access bad address, i guess, and if so, shouldn't it be a kernel
> panic?
cat /dev/kmem, as I already said (won't repeat the whole story here). Yes, 
yes, yes, the kmem driver could check manually the address, but (same story 
as the rest):

*) checking by hand is slower
*) not needed, because for i386 works and other archs conform to i386.
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