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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Kanoj Sarcar <kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.3 Pagedir allocation/free and update races
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:13:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <19991214111351.U822@mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199912140946.BAA07601@google.engr.sgi.com>; from Kanoj Sarcar on Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:46:00AM -0800

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:46:00AM -0800, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
> This note describes races in the procedures that allocate and free
> user level page directories. Platform code maintainers, please
> read.

pgd_alloc/free are never invoked from interrupts and the kernel code is not
preemptive, so per-CPU caches are safe, aren't they?

Cheers,
    Jakub
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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-12-14 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-12-14  9:46 Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-14  9:55 ` David S. Miller
1999-12-14 10:13 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
1999-12-14 23:00   ` Kanoj Sarcar
1999-12-14 23:08     ` David S. Miller
1999-12-14 23:51       ` Kanoj Sarcar

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