Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module | Date | Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:22:28 +0100 | From | David Howells <> |
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Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: > > Alright, let me ask that a different way: If I provide such a function in > > the module, _what_ calls it from the main kernel? > > Nothing. It is called from userspace, or to be specific from wine. > I would on second thought not limit this call to root. Perhaps you can > arrange it to be called if wine terminates from within the kernel. I don't > know.
I'm confused as to what you mean... This is a kernelspace function - you _can't_ call it directly from userspace. Or if you mean it to be a userspace function, you _can't_ call lock_kernel() from it.
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