Hi All:
I was poring over the arch/x86/process_32.c:kernel_thread() code.
Apparently (and surprisingly) it sets the kernel threads ds and es
register to __USER_DS. I saw a very old thread on the kernel newbies on
this, but I did not quite find a convincing reason in that thread. Any
idea why
EXPORT_SYMBOL macro creates a new kernel symbol entry (address of the symbol,
symbol) based on the value you specify and puts it in a special section of the
kernel image, in __ksymtab section. When modules are loaded dynamically, the
loader resolves the symbols during run time by parsing the
Better still, start working for a company that has some projects with the linux
kernel space. You get paid to do fun things :)
Ani
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