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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: kenneth.w.chen@intel.com
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Zoltan.Menyhart@free.fr,
	linux-i64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: RCU protected page table walking
Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:54:20 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031649400.32117@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605031847190.15463@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Those architectures (including i386 and x86_64) which #define their
> __pte_free_tlb etc. to tlb_remove_page are safe as is.  But Zoltan's
> ia64 #defines it to pte_free, which looks like it may free_page before
> the TLB flush.  But it is surprising if it has actually been unsafe

Sorry but I am in .au right now with spotty high latency connectivity. 
But the people on linux-ia64 should know. Ken?

Why was linux-ia64 not cced??

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-03 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-03 15:31 Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-03 16:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-03 18:00   ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-03 23:54     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2006-05-04  2:51       ` Chen, Kenneth W
2006-05-04  4:28         ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-04  9:26     ` Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-04  9:31       ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-04 11:32         ` Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-04 12:00           ` Andi Kleen
2006-05-04 13:13             ` Robin Holt
2006-05-04 13:54             ` Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-04 15:27               ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-04  9:19   ` Zoltan Menyhart

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