From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269212AbTGJLU5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:20:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269216AbTGJLU5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:20:57 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:24846 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269212AbTGJLU4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:20:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:35:29 +0100 From: Russell King To: Kirill Korotaev Cc: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [announce, patch] 4G/4G split on x86, 64 GB RAM (and more) support Message-ID: <20030710123529.A6866@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Kirill Korotaev , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307101450.42340.dev@sw.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200307101450.42340.dev@sw.ru>; from dev@sw.ru on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:50:42PM +0400 X-Message-Flag: Your copy of Microsoft Outlook is vulnerable to viruses. See www.mutt.org for more details. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 02:50:42PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > > > - I changed do_page_fault to setup vmalloced pages to current->mm->pgd > > > instead of cr3 context. I haven't read the patches, but this caught my attention. Wasn't the use of cr3 there to ensure that we used the right page tables when fixing up page faults occuring in the middle of a context switch for interrupt handlers in kernel modules? -- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html