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Re: Why can't we use the user-space pointer in kernel mode?

because it may be swapped out to disk ...
you need a special function that can deal with that (and swaps it right
back in)

Why can't we use the "page fault handler" like in user space to swap
the page back in?

Thanks,
Cheng

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