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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: machael thailer <dony.he@huawei.com>
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Subject: Re: questions about some bits of STATUS register and exception priority...
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In-Reply-To: <001901c12a2f$8626be00$8021690a@huawei.com>; from dony.he@huawei.com on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:53:34PM +0800
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On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:53:34PM +0800, machael thailer wrote:

> > In the Linux kernel CU0 is used to indicate that we're running on the
> > kernel stack.
> 
> Yes, when CU0 is 1, we can see we are running on the kernel stack.
> But when CU0 is 0, can we say it is in User mode?

No, think of the tlb exception handlers for example.

  Ralf