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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386: don't check_pgt_cache in flush_tlb_mm
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 11:59:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070515185947.GY19966@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0705151946550.30826@blonde.wat.veritas.com>

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:51:05PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> No other architecture calls check_pgt_cache() from within flush_tlb_mm(),
> and i386 is already calling check_pgt_cache() from the usual places,
> tlb_finish_mmu() and cpu_idle() (the latter being odd, but not unusual).
> flush_tlb_mm() has no business to be freeing pages: remove that line,
> which sneaked in with slub's i386 support.
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Acked-by: William Irwin <bill.irwin@oracle.com>


-- wli

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-15 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-15 18:51 [PATCH] i386: don't check_pgt_cache in flush_tlb_mm Hugh Dickins
2007-05-15 18:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-05-15 18:59 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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