From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 01:55:54 -0800 Message-Id: <199912140955.BAA19455@pizda.ninka.net> From: "David S. Miller" In-reply-to: <199912140946.BAA07601@google.engr.sgi.com> (kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com) Subject: Re: 2.3 Pagedir allocation/free and update races References: <199912140946.BAA07601@google.engr.sgi.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: So, all architectures that cache page directories have racy code. They are cpu local, how can they be racy? If you are mentioning the kernel pgdir update cases, well even then many architectures do not even need to update any of the pgtable caches during such events (sparc64 for example). Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/