On 12/09/2013 02:08 AM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> The TLB must be flushed if the PTE is updated but change_pte_range is clearing
> the PTE while marking PTEs pte_numa without necessarily flushing the TLB if it
> reinserts the same entry. Without the flush, it's conceivable that two 
> processors
> have different TLBs for the same virtual address and at the very least it 
> would
> generate spurious faults. This patch only unmaps the pages in 
> change_pte_range for
> a full protection change.
> 
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>

Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <r...@redhat.com>


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