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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Xianghua Xiao <xiaoxianghua@gmail.com>
Cc: Maindoor <sanjeevfiles@yahoo.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 603/e300
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 15:13:26 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1272950006.13814.19.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g2pe6bf505b1005030719r3194c665i61d0c5906e1d1254@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 09:19 -0500, Xianghua Xiao wrote:

> Ok here is the test result I did this morning, in short with/without
> Ben's patch it will oops if you write to a freed page.

Probably lucky enough that the free_pages() is pushing the stuff out of
the TLB. At least my patch prevents writing to a non-existing hash table
though, thus avoiding memory corruption.

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-04  5:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28  7:22 [PATCH] Fix DEBUG_PAGEALLOC on 603/e300 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-28 19:15 ` Xianghua Xiao
2010-04-28 19:46   ` Kim Phillips
2010-04-28 22:29   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-05-02 10:27     ` Maindoor
2010-05-03 14:19       ` Xianghua Xiao
2010-05-04  5:13         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-05-06  8:23         ` Maindoor
2010-05-06 13:04           ` Maindoor

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