From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Magnus Naeslund(f)" <mag@fbab.net>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Alpha compile problem solved by Andrea (pte_alloc)
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:46:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010430014653.C923@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <052901c0ceca$e6a543c0$020a0a0a@totalmef> <20010427155246.O16020@athlon.random> <m1k843qoc1.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1k843qoc1.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:27:10PM -0600
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 05:27:10PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Do you know if anyone has fixed the lazy vmalloc code? I know of
> as of early 2.4 it was broken on alpha. At the time I noticed it I didn't
> have time to persue it, but before I forget to even put in a bug
> report I thought I'd ask if you know anything about it?
On alpha it's racy if you set CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC y (so don't do
that as you don't need it). As long as you use only 1 entry of the pgd
for the whole vmalloc space (CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC n) alpha is
safe.
OTOH x86 is racy and there's no workaround available at the moment.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-29 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-27 3:34 Alpha compile problem solved by Andrea (pte_alloc) Magnus Naeslund(f)
2001-04-27 13:52 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-27 15:02 ` Magnus Naeslund(f)
2001-04-29 23:27 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-29 23:46 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-04-30 3:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-30 16:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-30 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-30 17:07 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-04-30 17:40 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-01 14:38 ` Hubert Mantel
2001-05-01 15:13 ` Alan Cox
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