I'm struggling to understand the ins and outs of the usb ohci driver
(usbohci.c) and have a question (well, several). 

If one writes to an endpoint, then "epio" gets called. This in turn
does ilock(ctrl) which disables interrupts on my single-processor
machine. Then "epgettd" is called several times to allocate transfer
descriptors. Each call to epgettd copies a portion from the user space
buffer which was passed as a parameter to "epio". 

What happens here if the user space buffer is in a page which is not
present? Is it possible for a page-in to happen even when interrupts
are disabled by the ilock?

Thanks for any insight.

rod

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