Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Dec 1999 11:13:51 +0100 | From | Jakub Jelinek <> | Subject | Re: 2.3 Pagedir allocation/free and update races |
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On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 01:46:00AM -0800, Kanoj Sarcar wrote: > This note describes races in the procedures that allocate and free > user level page directories. Platform code maintainers, please > read.
pgd_alloc/free are never invoked from interrupts and the kernel code is not preemptive, so per-CPU caches are safe, aren't they?
Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jakub@redhat.com | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/~jj Linux version 2.3.26 on a sparc64 machine (1343.49 BogoMips) ___________________________________________________________________
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