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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@linuxcare.com.au>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: prumpf@mandrakesoft.com (Philipp Rumpf), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac15 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 21 Feb 2001 12:01:26 BST."
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Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:05:04 +1100
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In message <E14VXxY-0001wy-00@the-village.bc.nu> you write:
> > This is a while back, but I thought the solution Philipp and I came up
> > with was to simply used a rw semaphore for this, which was taken (read
> > only) on page fault if we have to scan the exception table.
> 
> We can take page faults in interrupt handlers in 2.4 so I had to use a 
> spinlock, but that sounds the same

We can?  Woah, please explain.

Rusty.
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