Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:12:02 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Wojtek Pilorz <> | Subject | Re: copy_from_user() fix |
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On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:54:37 +0100 > From: Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> > To: Pavel Machek <pavel@bug.ucw.cz> > Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, hpa@transmeta.com, > linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: copy_from_user() fix > > >Still, I think that this could be in kernel. It is faster to do here > >(you can SIGSEGV it directly from pagefault handler), > > I don't think we should be worried about the performance of segfaulting > applications. > Perhaps except emulators like dosemu, where there are some valid uses of faults to let the emulator know e.g. which video pages are accessed? (At least as far as I understand that)
> p. > Wojtek
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