Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 02 Feb 2000 18:43:28 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: 2.3.42: Strange memory corruption |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > > This looks a bit like there might be a race with the > pagetable mapping or read()ing of the file. It would > explain the three `suspicious' segfaults I've seen in > the last few days... >
The TLB flush code contains various races if IPI's are sent between switch_mm() and switch_to(). I and Ingo have written patches that fix these problems, and we are waiting for Linus' reply.
I've posted my patch and a longer description to linux-kernel last Friday "[PATCH] new tlb flush code".
-- Manfred
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