Re: preempt bug in set_pmd_pfn?

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Mar 04 2008 - 16:28:47 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think set_pmd_pfn, which is only called by __set_fixmap, might have
> a preempt bug in it.

yes, and we had similar preemption bugs in the past. I guess most places
are either infrequent or have some natural atomicity anyway. Wanna send
a patch?

Ingo
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