Re: pud_bad vs pud_bad

[wli]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> The RW bit needs to be allowed to become read-only for hugetlb COW.
>> Changing it over to the 32-bit method is a bugfix by that token.

On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:14:42PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> If there's a bugfix to be made there, of course I'm in favour:
> but how come we've never seen such a bug?  hugetlb COW has been
> around for a year or two by now, hasn't it?

We can tell from the code that a write-protected pte mapping of a
1GB hugetlb page would be flagged as bad. It must not be called on
ptes mapping hugetlb pages if they're not getting flagged.


-- wli
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