Re: Page faults in interrupt context

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On Nov 17, 2007 9:02 AM, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 17-11-07 05:56, Peter Teoh wrote:
> You get a scary "scheduling while atomic" message in the kernel log. In
> atomic context, which is the context you're in inside an interrupt handler,
> you must never do things which can cause you to sleep including accessing
> memory which could be swapped out -- which fortunately does not include any
> kernel-space memory.

Ah, the kernel things are never swapped out. I guess it makes sense
now! Thanks everybody :)

Vegard

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