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From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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Subject: Re: sio breakage
In-Reply-To: <199812010330.OAA20453@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Dec 1, 98 02:30:14 pm"
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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 14:59:40 -0800 (PST)
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...
> 
> something()
> {
> 	asm("cli");
> 	asm("sti");
> }
> 
...
> 
> Fixes:
> kernel: send a fatal signal to applications that do this.
> applications: don't do this.  If interrupts must be disabled, then all
>               critical code and data must be within one page.

Do we have the equivelent of the VMS wire(memory_range) call so that
programs can force thier critical code sections to be non page faultable?

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