Re: pages already locked on ia64

Christian Hinkelbein
2003-11-21T15:17:46Z

David Mosberger schrieb:

>>>>>>On Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:22:23 +0100, Christian Hinkelbein <hinkelbein@ti.uni-mannheim.de> said:
>
> Christian> On ia32 i succesfully do a lock_page() on every page
> Christian> returned by get_user_pages(), lateron i do unlock_page().
> Christian> On ia64 sometimes (on ia32 seemingly never) the first
> Christian> page is already locked, just after malloc(). For a quick
> Christian> hack ......
>
> Umh, what page-size did you use?
>
> In any case, a minimal test-program that reproduces the problem would
> probably help you get an answer much faster.

Uuuh, thanks for the hint. It was the bigger page-size (16k) that
triggered an old bug in my driver.

christian