From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [PATCH] use mm_counter macros for nr_pte since its also under ptl In-Reply-To: <20050818201719.25443ae1.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: References: <20050817151723.48c948c7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050817174359.0efc7a6a.akpm@osdl.org> <20050818201719.25443ae1.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: hugh@veritas.com, torvalds@osdl.org, piggin@yahoo.com.au, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > Christoph Lameter wrote: > > > > Actually this is a bug already present in Linus' tree (but still my > > fault). nr_pte's needs to be managed through the mm counter macros like > > other counters protected by the page table fault. > > Does that mean that Linus's tree can presently go BUG? > No because the mm_counter macros do nothing special at this point. Just an uncleanness if the page fault patches are not applied. -- 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