Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE

Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26T04:50:50Z

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
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> Hrm... Still dies, some kind of loop it seems, I'll have a look

Are you sure the it's not just taking infinite page fault because we keep
reloading the old value from the hash tables? That "hash fault" thing
still doesn't convince me. Why should the hash-refill fastpath ever look
at the software page tables?

Linus