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From: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86 page fault handler not interrupt safe
Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 10:57:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AF6B7D0.B63FD27C@didntduck.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14wiWH-0003KR-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> (The current -ac fix for the double vmalloc races is below. WP test makes it
> more complex than is nice)

WP test is easy to handle.  Just filter out protection violations and
only take the vmalloc path if the page was not found.

-       if (address >= TASK_SIZE && !(error_code & 4))
+       if (address >= TASK_SIZE && !(error_code & 5))

--

				Brian Gerst

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-07 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-06  1:26 [PATCH] x86 page fault handler not interrupt safe Brian Gerst
2001-05-07  0:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-07  3:54   ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-07 10:45   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07 14:57     ` Brian Gerst [this message]
2001-05-07 15:07       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07 17:12         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-07 17:27           ` David Woodhouse
2001-05-07 19:54           ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-07 20:16             ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-07 21:37           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-07 22:52           ` Jesper Juhl
2001-05-07 18:35         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2001-05-07 16:51     ` Linus Torvalds
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-05-07 17:32 Dunlap, Randy
2001-05-07 17:51 ` David Woodhouse
     [not found] <D5E932F578EBD111AC3F00A0C96B1E6F07DBE26F@orsmsx31.jf.intel .com>
2001-05-07 17:52 ` Anton Altaparmakov
     [not found] <3AF712D5.5D712E0F@didntduck.org>
2001-05-07 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-07 22:10   ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-08 10:45   ` Alan Cox
2001-05-08 16:45     ` Linus Torvalds
2001-05-09 22:12       ` Brian Gerst
2001-05-07 21:53 ` Nigel Gamble
2001-05-07 21:58 Anton Altaparmakov

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