Re: [PATCH] enable interrupts in user path of page fault.

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> I didn't realize that userspace was allowed to run with interrupts
> disabled.

It isn't, normally. You *can* try to do it by using iopl(), but it's not 
practical. It's certainly not practical to expect a page fault to not 
enable them again, since we obviously need interrupts enabled just to 
handle any IO. 

So don't worry about it. 

		Linus
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