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SubjectRe: [patches] [PATCH] [1/58] x86: Always flush pages in change_page_attr
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On Monday 06 August 2007 12:15:01 Jan Beulich wrote:
> But that is still wrong - you're again flushing the page table page rather than
> the data one. Fixing this was the purpose of the patch I had sent, plus the
> broken reference counting used by the reversion logic. Jan

True. The problem is that we can't necessarily use the LRU list_head of the data
pages though; e.g. when the page is mapped to user space.

I guess we might need to go back to wbinvd again.

What was the remaining problem of the reference counting?

-Andi

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