On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:41:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > Hmm... no, because free_pgd_slow decrements it? In that case, can > you have free_pgd_slow also decrement nr_ptes, instead of your > below patch?
Unfortunately not - free_pgd_slow doesn't have any knowledge about the mm_struct that the pgd was associated with. Also remember that nr_ptes wasn't incremented in get_pgd_slow() for this page table either, and this is the "bug" fix. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - 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/
