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From: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>,
	"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>,
	kaos@ocs.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion for module .init.{text,data} sections
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 22:40:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010429224053.A7269@uni-mainz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200104270449.VAA05279@adam.yggdrasil.com> <20010427103519.E679@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> <20010429010522.A32@(none)>
In-Reply-To: <20010429010522.A32@(none)>; from pavel@suse.cz on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:05:23AM +0000

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:05:23AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> You can't do that. Think about interrupt routine being swapped out.
> 
> Kernel is *not* preemptible.

Quite a statement. Would you care to elaborate? I thought there are Unix
(or Unix-like) kernels out there that allow pageing and premption of kernel
parts. Or am i mistaken?

Dominik
-- 
          A lovely thing to see:                   Kobayashi Issa
     through the paper window's holes               (1763-1828)
                the galaxy.               [taken from: David Brin - Sundiver]

      reply	other threads:[~2001-04-29 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-27  4:49 Suggestion for module .init.{text,data} sections Adam J. Richter
2001-04-27  8:35 ` Ingo Oeser
2001-04-27 13:14   ` Brian Gerst
2001-04-29  1:05   ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-29 20:40     ` Dominik Kubla [this message]

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