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From: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Ryan Hope <rmh3093@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Lockless/Get_User_Pages_Fast causes Xorg 1.4.99.* to lock
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:03:06 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4871330A.3030400@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807042112130.16912@blonde.site>

Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Zan Lynx wrote:
[cut]
> Useful info, thank you; even more useful was the Code line in your attachment
> 
>> [  269.224557] Code: 00 00 48 b9 00 00 00 00 00 e2 ff ff 48 21 d8 48 c1 e8 0c 48 8d 14 c5 00 00 00 00 48 c1 e0 06 48 29 d0 48 01 c1 0f 84 10 ff ff ff <48> 8b 01 48 89 ca f6 c4 40 74 04 48 8b 51 10 90 ff 42 08 90 ff 
> 
> which is enough to identify the oops as in copy_one_pte's get_page(page).
> Here's a patch I think we need, which I'm hoping will fix both your
> crashes - please let us know - thanks a lot.
> 
> Stop mprotect's pte_modify from wiping out the x86 pte_special bit, which
> caused oops thereafter when vm_normal_page thought X's abnormal was normal.
[cut patch]

I can report that this fixes things for me as well.  Thank you.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-06 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04  6:26 Lockless/Get_User_Pages_Fast causes Xorg 1.4.99.* to lock Ryan Hope
2008-07-04 16:29 ` Zan Lynx
2008-07-04 20:29   ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-05  5:26     ` Ryan Hope
2008-07-06 21:03     ` Zan Lynx [this message]
2008-07-07  7:01     ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-07  7:55     ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-07  8:06     ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-07 10:39       ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-07 11:08         ` Martin Schwidefsky
2008-07-07 11:39         ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-07 12:02           ` Hugh Dickins
2008-07-07 15:43       ` Carsten Otte
2008-07-07 16:16         ` Ryan Hope
2008-07-07 16:38           ` Carsten Otte
2008-07-07 17:01             ` Ryan Hope
2008-07-07 17:48         ` Hugh Dickins

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