2.6.23-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jan Beulich patch aa506dc7b12d03fbf8fd11aab752aed1aadd9c07 in mainline. i386: avoid temporarily inconsistent pte-s One more of these issues (which were considered fixed a few releases back): other than on x86-64, i386 allows set_fixmap() to replace already present mappings. Consequently, on PAE, care must be taken to not update the high half of a pte while the low half is still holding the old value. [ tglx: arch/x86 adaptation ] Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/i386/mm/pgtable.c @@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ static void set_pte_pfn(unsigned long va } pte = pte_offset_kernel(pmd, vaddr); if (pgprot_val(flags)) - /* stored as-is, to permit clearing entries */ - set_pte(pte, pfn_pte(pfn, flags)); + set_pte_present(&init_mm, vaddr, pte, pfn_pte(pfn, flags)); else pte_clear(&init_mm, vaddr, pte); -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/