Steven Rostedt <[email protected]> writes:
>
> Nope, the kernel is always locked into memory. If you take a page fault
> from the kernel world, you will crash and burn. The kernel is never
> "swapped out". So if you are in kernel mode, going into do_page_fault
> in arch/i386/mm/fault.c there is no path to swap a page in.
Actually there is - when the page fault was caused by *_user.
-Andi
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