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

Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24T07:39:29Z

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:

> Who else has been working on the page tables that could verify this
> for me? Ingo? Ben LaHaise? I forget who even worked on this, because
> it's so long ago we went through all the atomicity issues with the
> page table updates on SMP. There may be some reason that I'm
> overlooking that explains why I'm full of sh*t.

Ben's the master of atomic dirty pte updates! :)

Ingo