From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763745AbYBFCGt (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:06:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759635AbYBFCGk (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:06:40 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:50340 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759029AbYBFCGk (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:06:40 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Hugh Dickins Cc: Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH mm] stop c_p_a corrupting the pds In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1202263535_3253P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:05:35 -0500 Message-ID: <26590.1202263535@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --==_Exmh_1202263535_3253P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 I *knew* there was a reason we should have had this patch series in -mm for a while. :) --==_Exmh_1202263535_3253P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHqRXvcC3lWbTT17ARAitGAKCmRR7pkMfJ3Txpcx2bzGqO4Ux8+gCfWTCL RaoFS4dfanoetkoqdB3QqWo= =eg+5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1202263535_3253P--