Re: [RFC] 2.5.8 sort kernel tables

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Thu Apr 18 2002 - 12:51:43 EST


Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> writes:
>
> BTW, do you have any valid examples of use of copy_to/from_user or
> get/put_user in an init section?

i386 uses the exception tables to check at startup for the old i386 bug of
pages not being write protected when writing from supervisor mode. That
function is __init.

-Andi

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