It is a long time since I have gone through the Page Fault handler code, but I seem to remember that at least in 2.4 kernels, the Page Fault handler code will not call Oops if the address that caused the fault do belong to the process address space of whose context the kernel thread is executing. Or am I wrong here ?
It is "Understanding the Linux Kernel 3rd" said that. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/