Re: [patch] x86: fix PTE corruption issue while mapping RAM using /dev/mem

[pageexec@freemail.hu]

On 13 Jan 2009 at 0:51, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> applied to tip/x86/urgent, thanks Suresh!
> 
> note that the patch caused some conflicts (there were other changes in 
> pat.c) - i merged it up manually but could you please check the final 
> commit in tip/master whether it's all OK?

i don't think that it got applied properly:

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
index 85cbd3c..ea36ed7 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat.c
@@ -347,9 +347,6 @@ int reserve_memtype(u64 start, u64 end, unsigned long req_type,
        new->end        = end;
        new->type       = actual_type;

-       if (new_type)
-               *new_type = actual_type;
-
        spin_lock(&memtype_lock);

        if (cached_entry && start >= cached_start)
@@ -437,6 +434,9 @@ int free_memtype(u64 start, u64 end)
        if (is_ISA_range(start, end - 1))
                return 0;

+       if (new_type)
+               *new_type = actual_type;
+
        is_range_ram = pagerange_is_ram(start, end);
        if (is_range_ram == 1)
                return free_ram_pages_type(start, end);

free_memtype doesn't even have a new_type argument for starters ;), patch
must have applied it at the wrong place...