From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20070326.184508.85687849.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20070327010624.GA2986@holomorphy.com> References: <20070326102651.6d59207b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070327010624.GA2986@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:06:24 -0700 Return-Path: To: wli@holomorphy.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, clameter@sgi.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > 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. -- 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: email@kvack.org