Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 17:39, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Who else has been working on the page tables that could verify this
> > for me? Ingo? Ben LaHaise? I forget who even worked on this, because
> > it's so long ago we went through all the atomicity issues with the
> > page table updates on SMP. There may be some reason that I'm
> > overlooking that explains why I'm full of sh*t.
> 
> Ben's the master of atomic dirty pte updates! :)

Precise which Ben :) Well, in this case it's obvious but still.. :)

Ben.


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