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SubjectRe: Linux 2.4.1-ac15
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> so you hold a spinlock during copy_from_user ?  Or did you change
> sys_init_module/sys_create_modules semantics ?

The only points I need to hold a spinlock are editing the chain and
walking it in a case where I dont hold the kernel lock.

So I spin_lock_irqsave the two ops updating the list links in each case and
the exception lookup walk

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