> > We can take page faults in interrupt handlers in 2.4 so I had to use a 
> > spinlock, but that sounds the same
> 
> We can?  Woah, please explain.

vmalloc does a lazy load of the tlb. That can lead to the exception table 
being walked on an IRQ

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