> > That is exactly the situation in pageattr.c. You're saying the manual > > is wrong here? > > I'm saying that we are not following step 2 (marking the pages not present)
Yes that's true. It's one of the design problems of the intent API that makes fixing this hard unfortunately. (intent API assumes that the caller doesn't fully own the page to change, and if you can't control it 100% it is not possible to unmap it temporarily) > so 3 and 4 > aren't all too relevant. As I said before I've asked internally about this > and got > mixed answers so I'm still chasing it down. Ok. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/