Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:07:47 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: Alpha compile problem solved by Andrea (pte_alloc) |
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:56:41PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On alpha it's racy if you set CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC y (so don't do > > that as you don't need it). As long as you use only 1 entry of the pgd > > for the whole vmalloc space (CONFIG_ALPHA_LARGE_VMALLOC n) alpha is > > safe. > > Its racy for all cases on the Alpha because the exception table fixes are > not done.
you're talking about the module races, I was only talking only about vmalloc lazy pgd mapping, they're different things even if they are both related to the page fault hanlder.
I don't use modules on the alpha so...
> > OTOH x86 is racy and there's no workaround available at the moment. > > -ac fixes all known problems there
I will check that shortly, thanks. (so far all the fixes I seen floating around for such races were wrong)
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