Re: Deferring work in the page fault handler

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On 21-05-08 12:04, Vegard Nossum wrote:

In addition to this, I must _not_ access any memory allocated by
kmalloc(), as this may generate a new (recursive) page fault.

Do feel free to educate me; I completely don't understand the question. kmalloc() alocated memory is non-swappable. How are you going to take a page fault from accessing it?

Rene.

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