Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:25:00 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: kmalloc() allocation. |
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 09:07:29AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 08:49:02AM +0000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > > > > what do you mean?! That is, of course, impossible because it would break > > > all existing software, so I won't even bother checking the code, safely > > > assuming that you perhaps meant something else, ok? > > > > He refers to faulting into the page table from a master table, not faulting > > from disk. > > > > Ah, ok then. Thanks Andi, I was a bit worried that the world has changed > too radically for me to catch up :)
Well, unless I'm missing something major the new method is racy (it does not handle vmalloc-vfree-vmalloc of same area on a different CPU)
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