Re: mremap() pte allocation atomicity error

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Sat Sep 28 2002 - 01:04:50 EST


On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:54:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A simple fix would be to drop the atomic kmap of the source pte
> and take it again after the alloc_one_pte_map() call.
> Can you think of a more efficient way?

Not one that isn't highly invasive, no. This is what I had in mind
for the easy fix.

Cheers,
Bill
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