Re: [PATCH 0/6] freepgt: free_pgtables shakeup

From: Russell King
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 02:58:42 EST


On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 01:41:46PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hmm... no, because free_pgd_slow decrements it? In that case, can
> you have free_pgd_slow also decrement nr_ptes, instead of your
> below patch?

Unfortunately not - free_pgd_slow doesn't have any knowledge about the
mm_struct that the pgd was associated with.

Also remember that nr_ptes wasn't incremented in get_pgd_slow() for this
page table either, and this is the "bug" fix.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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