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    > Yes, it is a bit, umm, innovative. If it is going to be kept, even if
    > just for devel logging, you should disable interrupts around it.
    > Changing segments is not a normal thing to do.

    Actually that wouldn't be needed because interrupts are not allowed to do any
    user accesses. And contrary to the name it doesn't actually change
    the segment registers, only state used by *_user.

    -Andi
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