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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickens <hugh@veritas.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: race with page_referenced_one->ptep_test_and_clear_young and pagetable setup/pulldown
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 10:03:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710051003.45129.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C32B9BEC.E711%keir@xensource.com>


> Fortuitously, Jan Beulich has a patch to fix this. It's not going to be
> directly applicable to 2.6.23-rc series, but should be easily ported:
> <http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2007-03/msg01200.html>.

Do I misread that patch or does it really walk the complete address
space and try to take all possible locks? Isn't that very slow?

-Andi

       reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <C32B9BEC.E711%keir@xensource.com>
2007-10-05  8:03 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-10-05  9:05 ` race with page_referenced_one->ptep_test_and_clear_young and pagetable setup/pulldown Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05  9:15   ` Keir Fraser
2007-10-05 15:33     ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-05 15:46       ` Keir Fraser
2007-10-05 16:48         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05 20:35         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05  1:43 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05  1:52 ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-05  4:15   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05 13:17     ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-05  2:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-10-05  4:08   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-07  9:52   ` Nick Piggin
2007-10-05 11:36 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-10-05 18:58   ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-05 19:40     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-10-05 19:56       ` Rik van Riel
2007-10-05 19:39   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge

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