From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:56:07 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080429.035607.224699531.davem@davemloft.net> Subject: Re: [rfc] data race in page table setup/walking? From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080429050054.GC21795@wotan.suse.de> References: <20080429050054.GC21795@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: Nick Piggin Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:00:54 +0200 Return-Path: To: npiggin@suse.de Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, hugh@veritas.com, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org List-ID: > So anyway... comments, please? Am I dreaming the whole thing up? I suspect > that if I'm not, then powerpc at least might have been impacted by the race, > but as far as I know of, they haven't seen stability problems around there... > Might just be terribly rare, though. I'd like to try to make a test program > to reproduce the problem if I can get access to a box... This definitely does look like a real problem, albeit pretty hard to trigger I would say. :-) Thanks for looking into this. -- 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