Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 May 2006 16:37:28 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix update_mmu_cache in fremap.c | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 23:43:47 +0100 (BST)
> Sure it's important for not-previously-present mappings, when you're > installing a present pte. But the "file pte" being installed by > install_file_pte is not a real pte - it's a non-present entry (like > a swap entry), noting what file offset should be mapped there when > there's a fault (in a non-linear vma where that's not obvious).
My bad, the update_mmu_cache() certainly is erroneous in that case.
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