On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT, Hugh Dickins said: > > When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is > > currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing > > the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address - > > this version of the patch being the hotfix for 2.6.24-mm1. > > > > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <snark> > I *knew* there was a reason we should have had this patch series in -mm for a > while. > </snark> > > :)
Seriously, I do agree with you on that. It seems like the excitement of making great changes has overtaken proper caution here. Though I guess it was just coincidence that made it more debuggable in my -mm kernel (which gave "bad pgd" errors after starting X), when the -git kernel just crashed somehow in starting X. And I was lucky to have CONFIG_VMSPLIT_2G_OPT on that machine, which placed the corruption somewhere that soon got noticed. Hugh -- 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/
