On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: > > This is not relevant since it only deals with file pages. > > OK. And CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC?
Its a debug feature that can be fixed if its broken. > > ptes are only > > installed atomically for anonymous memory (if CONFIG_ATOMIC_OPS > > is defined). > > It's a shame. A *nice* solution to this problem would address all pte ops > and wouldn't have such special cases... Yeah. See my mmu abstraction proposal. This is a solution until we can address the bigger issues. After that has been worked out the start/stop become begin/end transaction and the pte_cmpxchg are converted into mmu_add/mmu_change/mmu_commit - 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/
