Re: [QUICKLIST 1/5] Quicklists for page table pages V4

[David Miller]

From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:06:24 -0700

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 10:26:51AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > b) we understand why the below simple modification crashes i386.
> 
> Full eager zeroing patches not dependent on quicklist code don't crash,
> so there is no latent use-after-free issue covered up by caching. I'll
> help out more on the i386 front as-needed.

I've looked into this a few times and I am quite mystified as
to why that simple test patch crashes.
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