linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean

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Date:	Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:55:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ranma@...edrich.de
Cc:	torvalds@...l.org, gordonfarquharson@...il.com, tbm@...ius.com,
	a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, andrei.popa@...eo.ro, akpm@...l.org,
	hugh@...itas.com, nickpiggin@...oo.com.au, arjan@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page_mkclean_one

From: Tobias Diedrich <ranma@...edrich.de>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:17:00 +0100

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > I don't think it's a page table issue any more, it just doesn't look 
> > likely with the ARM UP corruption. It's also not apparently even on a 
> > cacheline boundary, so it probably is really a dirty bit that got cleared 
> > wrogn due to some race with IO.
> 
> So, until now it's only been reported for SMP on i386?
> I'm seeing the issue on my Pentium-M Notebook (Thinkpad R52) over
> here, UP kernel, no preempt.

I've seen it on sparc64, UP kernel, no preempt.
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