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SubjectRe: Suggestion for module .init.{text,data} sections
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:05:23AM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
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> 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
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