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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 22:10:39 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17449.6575.927844.106127@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060328075525.GA20801@gate.ebshome.net>

Eugene Surovegin writes:

> Fix 44x and BookE page fault handler to correctly lock PTE before 
> trying to pte_update() it, otherwise this PTE might be swapped out 
> after pte_present() check but before pte_uptdate() call, resulting in 
> corrupted PTE. This can happen with enabled preemption and low memory 
> condition.

That gives me this for an ARCH=powerpc 32-bit pmac build:

/home/paulus/kernel/powerpc/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable_32.c:376: error: conflicting types for 'get_pteptr'
/home/paulus/kernel/powerpc/include/asm-ppc/pgtable.h:841: error: previous declaration of 'get_pteptr' was here

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-28 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-02 20:26 Unsafe pte_update() in do_page_fault() (4xx and Book-E) Eugene Surovegin
2006-03-03  3:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-03-03  3:55   ` Eugene Surovegin
2006-03-28  7:55 ` [PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler Eugene Surovegin
2006-03-28 11:10   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2006-03-28 18:13     ` Eugene Surovegin

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