From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263408AbTEISHj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 14:07:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263409AbTEISHj (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 14:07:39 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:34977 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263408AbTEISHi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 May 2003 14:07:38 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 11:20:01 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: "Martin J. Bligh" Cc: Dave Hansen , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 uaccess to fixmap pages Message-ID: <20030509182001.GA8978@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , "Martin J. Bligh" , Dave Hansen , Linus Torvalds , Jamie Lokier , Roland McGrath , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3EBBD982.9070006@us.ibm.com> <44170000.1052495699@[10.10.2.4]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44170000.1052495699@[10.10.2.4]> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org At some point in the past, dhansen wrote: >> Don't anyone go applying these yet, though. I think there has been a >> bugfix or two since Martin released 2.5.68-mjb1, where these came from. >> So, consider them just an example for now. On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:55:00AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Here's the latest (fixed) sequence of patches, which seems to work pretty > happily. Might need some merging to get them to go against mainline, but > nothing major. The patch needs to do some kind of work in kernel_pmd_ctor() and introduce a kernel_pmd_dtor() and do things analogous to what the re-slabification patches are doing for the non-PAE case in order to fix the bugs where pageattr.c doesn't get a chance to clean up cached pgd's and add a pmd invalidation loop to set_pmd_pte() in pageattr.c. -- wli