On Thu, 7 May 2015 12:53:28 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Serialize against find_linux_pte_or_hugepte which does lock-less > lookup in page tables with local interrupts disabled. For huge pages > it casts pmd_t to pte_t. Since format of pte_t is different from > pmd_t we want to prevent transit from pmd pointing to page table > to pmd pointing to huge page (and back) while interrupts are disabled. > We clear pmd to possibly replace it with page table pointer in > different code paths. So make sure we wait for the parallel > find_linux_pte_or_hugepage to finish. I'm not seeing here any description of the problem which is being fixed. Does the patch make the machine faster? Does the machine crash? -- 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/
