Re: 2.2.13pre14 lockup caused by do_check_pgt_cache()

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:05:36 +0100 (BST)


> On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> >Ok thats a trick I missed. So its just irq races that can occur
>
> Such code can't be run from irqs (or better shouldn't be run 8).
> All pagetable stuff must not be touched from irqs.

I know this. I've been going over the code to see if it appears true - nobody
uses GFP_KERNEL from interrupts either right 8).

Alan

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