Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Thu, 27 May 2004 15:12:35 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE |
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>>>>> On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:00:54 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> said:
Benjamin> Same for PPC, but we still have a race where we can reach Benjamin> that code, see my initial mail (typically, because your Benjamin> low level code, for obvious reasons, doesn't take the mm Benjamin> semaphore, thus the page may have been mapped right after Benjamin> you decide to go to do_page_fault and before it takes the Benjamin> mm sem).
Yes; I was only explaining how this works on ia64.
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