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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/12] mm: Introduce arch_pgd_init_late()
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:07:10 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1592,6 +1592,22 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
> syscall_tracepoint_update(p);
> write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
>
> + /*
> + * If we have a new PGD then initialize it:
> + *
> + * This method is called after a task has been made visible
> + * on the task list already.
> + *
> + * Architectures that manage per task kernel pagetables
> + * might use this callback to initialize them after they
> + * are already visible to new updates.
> + *
> + * NOTE: any user-space parts of the PGD are already initialized
> + * and must not be clobbered.
> + */
> + if (p->mm != current->mm)
> + arch_pgd_init_late(p->mm, p->mm->pgd);

Couldn't this be arch_pgd_init_late(p->mm) or arch_pgd_init_late(p)?



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