linux-kernel - Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes nonlinear)

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Message-Id: <E1HOsS7-0008Ky-00@dorka.pomaz.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:28:55 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
CC:	npiggin@...e.de, miklos@...redi.hu, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl
Subject: Re: [patch 4/6] mm: merge populate and nopage into fault (fixes
 nonlinear)

> > But I think we discovered that those msync changes are bogus anyway
> > becuase there is a small race window where pte could be dirtied without
> > page being set dirty?
> 
> Dunno, I don't recall that.  We dirty the page before the pte...

That's the one I just submitted a fix for ;)

  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/6/308

Miklos
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