Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:00:48 -0800 | Subject | Re: frequent lockups in 3.18rc4 | From | Linus Torvalds <> |
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On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > OK, should we just stick it in the x86 tree and see if anything > explodes? ;-)
Gaah, I got confused about the patches.
And something did explode, it showed some Xen nasties. Xen has that odd "we don't share PMD entries between MM's" thing going on, which means that the vmalloc fault thing does actually have to occasionally walk two levels rather than just copy the top level. I'm still not sure why Xen doesn't share PMD's, since threads that shame the MM clearly can share PMD's within Xen, but I gave up on it.
That said, making x86-64 use "read_cr3()" instead of "current->active_mm" would at least make things a bit safer wrt NMI's during the task switch, of course. So *some* 32/64-bit consolidation should be done, but my patch went a bit too far for Xen.
Linus
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