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

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Subject: Re: Why can user virtual addresses sometimes be dereferenced in the kernel?
From: Timur Tabi <timur.tabi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:57:54 -0600
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Timur Tabi wrote:

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.

Hmm... is it the 4G/4G patch?

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