Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:52:18 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: weirdness with ->mm vs ->active_mm handling |
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:45:49PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote: > Lazy-TLB == "promise not to use a lot of stuff in the kernel". In particular, > any page fault in that state is a bug.
In that case the lazy vmalloc faulting code is busted, as accessing a vmalloc page may need to fill in a pgd/pmd entry from a lazy tlb task. Got an idea for a more preferable fix?
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