Re: kernel thread and copy_to_user

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On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 02:09:24PM -0500, Dr. Michael Albert wrote:
> 
> In principle, you could find the appropriate physical address
> (from the user virtual address) and write directly to this.
> You still need to be careful in that the physical page
> could have move (be swapped to disk and back to a different
> memory location).
> 

I am sorry if i get this wrong. But are you suggesting that 
page fault handling doesn't work in kernel mode?  It should automatically 
load the swapped page in right.? So why should one be careful here..?

TIA,
  john

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