Re: copy to/from user with irq disabled

["Martin Candurra" <martincad@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, 2008 12:32 PM, Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi...

On Feb 7, 2008 9:17 PM, Ramagudi Naziir <naziirr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> is it allowed to use the copy from/to userspace with irq disabled ?

Hm, it might block...don't you think?

regards,

Mulyadi.

As Mulyadi said copy from/to user space may block (try to think that the page you want to copy from/to is not in memory).

Why do you think you need to disable interrupts ?

Regards.