From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:39:29 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE Message-ID: <20040524073929.GA23216@elte.hu> References: <1085369393.15315.28.camel@gaston> <1085371988.15281.38.camel@gaston> <1085373839.14969.42.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel list , Ben LaHaise , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: * Linus Torvalds wrote: > Who else has been working on the page tables that could verify this > for me? Ingo? Ben LaHaise? I forget who even worked on this, because > it's so long ago we went through all the atomicity issues with the > page table updates on SMP. There may be some reason that I'm > overlooking that explains why I'm full of sh*t. Ben's the master of atomic dirty pte updates! :) Ingo -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org