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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 18:13:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010430181304.B5917@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <052901c0ceca$e6a543c0$020a0a0a@totalmef> <20010427155246.O16020@athlon.random> <m1k843qoc1.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> <20010430014653.C923@athlon.random> <m1g0erqbxh.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>
In-Reply-To: <m1g0erqbxh.fsf@frodo.biederman.org>; from ebiederm@xmission.com on Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:55:06PM -0600

On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 09:55:06PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Hmm. I was having problems reproducible with
> CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC n.
> 
> Enabling the large vmalloc was my work around, because the large
> vmalloc whet back to the prelazy allocation code.

I don't have a clue about your problems but certainly the
CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC n is not racy while the
CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC y is racy.

> problem I had was entries failed to propagate across different tasks.

With CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC n the entry is propagated before
starting using the new pgd so it cannot race, there's no special page
fault case for that beacuse you will never get a page fault because of
an unmapped pgd entry in the vmalloc space in first place.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-04-30 16:13 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
2001-04-30  3:55       ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-04-30 16:13         ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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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