Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:49:24 -0400 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: Problem with global_flush_tlb() on i386 in 2.6.22-rc4-mm2 |
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* Anthony Liguori (anthony@codemonkey.ws) wrote:
> This is actually very conservative seeing as how disabling CR4.PGE > should be sufficient to flush global pages on modern processors. I > suspect you're getting preempted while it's running. >
Sorry, I just realized that I rejected your preemption explanation without explaining why:
1 - In my "Text Section" lock code, which is the original place where I triggered the problem, I take a spinlock around these operations, which disables preemption.
2 - My sample module plays alone in its own data structures: there is only one thread accessing the data at a given time (because I do only one file open at a given time, which I control).
Regards,
Mathieu
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