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Re: Why can user virtual addresses sometimes be dereferenced in the kernel?

Jon Masters wrote:

| That means tlb flush on each interrupt. That would mean quite a slowdown.

They reckon it has an acceptable overhead. I guess it depends upon what
you're doing with it.

Is there a name for this new feature of FC 2/3? Is it a kernel config option? I'm trying to learn more about it, but I need to know what it's called first.


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