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From: Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 08:38:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] Performance Patch for TLB misses
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David Mosberger schrieb:

> >>>>> On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 15:00:27 +0100, Christian Hildner <christian.hildner@hob.de> said:
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>   Christian> - let the processor also check for privilege level
>   Christian> because it's very very rare
>
> I didn't look at the patch too closely but this change looks wrong.
> It would let user level insert arbitrary identity-mapped TLB
> translations, which is not safe because it can trigger memory
> attribute aliasing.

Yes, user level would be allowed to insert translations. But the page attributes are hardcoded
(PAGE_KERNEL) and this will not allow the user to touch this pages.

Christian