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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: You might need vmalloc_sync_all()
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 08:44:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501074419.GA8120@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070501042655.GL25929@bingen.suse.de>

On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 06:26:55AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> Since someone mentioned again.
> 
> Right now only x86 implements vmalloc_sync_all(). But iff:
> 
> - Your module mappings might require a page fault calling C 
> code in kernel

Yes, just like x86.

> - You got a pagefault notifier at the beginning of the page fault
> handler

What's this?

> Apparently at least ARM has this problem.

Is there a bug report?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-01  7:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-01  4:26 You might need vmalloc_sync_all() Andi Kleen
2007-05-01  7:44 ` Russell King [this message]
2007-05-01 11:37   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-01 19:20     ` Russell King

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