Re: [PATCH mm] stop c_p_a corrupting the pds

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Tue Feb 05 2008 - 21:06:51 EST


On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:27:21 GMT, Hugh Dickins said:
> When change_page_attr splits a large page on x86_32 (without PAE), it is
> currently corrupting every process's page directory: fix that by removing
> the thinko which passes down a physical instead of a virtual address -
> this version of the patch being the hotfix for 2.6.24-mm1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>

<snark>
I *knew* there was a reason we should have had this patch series in -mm for a while.
</snark>

:)

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