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Message-ID: <20071002222003.GL19691@waste.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 17:20:03 -0500
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: pgd_none_or_clear_bad strangeness?
In lib/pagewalk.c, I've been using the various forms of
{pgd,pud,pmd}_none_or_clear_bad while walking page tables as that
seemed the canonical way to do things. Lately (eg with -rc7-mm1),
these have been triggering messages like "bad pgd 0x01e3" and causing
nasty double faults. It appears this is actually triggered at the pmd
level (mm/memory.c:116), though it appears to produce the wrong
message.
Has something changed here? I'm pretty sure this used to work! Is this
not a kosher thing to do? Does it make any sense I'd repeatedly run
into a bad pmd in the middle of bash's page table right after boot?
The simple _none variant seems to work, but I worry that it's papering
over a real problem.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
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