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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] atomic pte updates and pae changes, take 2
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 08:01:14 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0010150800250.30587-100000@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001014143309.D5813@redhat.com>

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Stephen Tweedie wrote:

> Looks good.  The only trouble I can see left is that pte_clear() is
> still using set_pte(), which doesn't work right for PAE36.  set_pte()
> is setting the high word first, which is fine for installing a new
> pte, but if you do that to clear a pte then you have left the old
> page-present bit intact while you've removed have of the pte.
> pte_clear() needs to clear the words in the other order (just as
> pte_get_and_clear correctly does).

yep, that should make it work. The pgd operations must use 64-bit
instructions - the pmds are fine to be 64-bit for the time being, but they
can be changed to the pte logic as well.

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-15 12:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-14  0:17 Ben LaHaise
2000-10-14  1:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-10-14  8:26   ` David S. Miller
2000-10-15 12:07   ` Ingo Molnar
2000-10-14 13:33 ` Stephen Tweedie
2000-10-15 12:01   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2000-10-19 20:16 ` oopses in test10-pre4 (was Re: [RFC] atomic pte updates and pae changes, take 3) Linus Torvalds
2000-10-20  5:44   ` Ben LaHaise
2000-10-20 17:18     ` Linus Torvalds

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