Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 31 Jul 2003 18:02:16 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: Panic on 2.6.0-test1-mm1 |
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At some point in the past, I wrote: >> pgd_dtor() will never be called on PAE due to the above code (thanks to >> the PTRS_PER_PMD check), _unless_ mingo's patch is applied (which backs >> out the PTRS_PER_PMD check).
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:57:49PM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > OK, might have made a mistake ... I can rerun it if you want, but the > latest kernel seems to work now.
There was a spinlock acquisition in there, too, so if you're seeing weird performance effects in an update (not sure if there are any yet), generating a patch to skip that, the list op, and not install pgd_dtor() when PTRS_PER_PMD == 1 is in order.
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