Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 May 2002 17:57:08 -0400 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19-pre8 vm86 smp locking fix |
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:36:23PM +0200, Kasper Dupont wrote: > The pagetable access in arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c is related > to another access in arch/i386/mm/fault.c. Did anybody > verify that the other file does correct locking?
That should be safe: the vmalloc pgds can only be filled from the main kernel page table. They never change afterwards, so even if two CPUs entered that code at the same time it would be okay.
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