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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: wli@holomorphy.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:45:08 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:06:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070326.184508.85687849.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070327010624.GA2986@holomorphy.com>

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > b) we understand why the below simple modification crashes i386.
> 
> Full eager zeroing patches not dependent on quicklist code don't crash,
> so there is no latent use-after-free issue covered up by caching. I'll
> help out more on the i386 front as-needed.

I've looked into this a few times and I am quite mystified as
to why that simple test patch crashes.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27  1:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23  6:28 Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23  6:28 ` [QUICKLIST 2/5] Quicklist support for IA64 Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23  6:28 ` [QUICKLIST 3/5] Quicklist support for i386 Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23  6:28 ` [QUICKLIST 4/5] Quicklist support for x86_64 Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23  6:29 ` [QUICKLIST 5/5] Quicklist support for sparc64 Christoph Lameter, David Miller
2007-03-23  6:39 ` [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4 Andrew Morton
2007-03-23  6:52   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23  7:48     ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-23 11:23       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 14:58         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23 11:29       ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 14:57         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 19:17           ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-23 11:39       ` Nick Piggin
2007-03-24  5:14         ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-23 15:08       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-23 17:54         ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-24  6:21           ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-26 16:52             ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-26 18:14               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-26 18:26               ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-27  1:06                 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-27  1:22                   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-27  1:45                   ` David Miller, William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2007-03-27 11:19                 ` William Lee Irwin III

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