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Message-ID: <20080304212821.GB8944@elte.hu>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 22:28:21 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: preempt bug in set_pmd_pfn?
* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org> wrote:
> I think set_pmd_pfn, which is only called by __set_fixmap, might have
> a preempt bug in it.
yes, and we had similar preemption bugs in the past. I guess most places
are either infrequent or have some natural atomicity anyway. Wanna send
a patch?
Ingo
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