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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> The functions in mm/usercopy assume that no exception handling is
> required if fs is KERNEL_DS. This is not true: at least the mount
> options copy and the i386 traps handler assume exception handling with
> fs==KERNEL_DS.

hm, what do you mean by the i386 traps handler? The boot-time WP detection
fault thing?

	Ingo