Re: [RFC] atomic pte updates for x86 smp

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 03:56:32 EST


   Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 10:13:48 +0200 (CEST)
   From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

   the PAE pgd 'anomaly' should not affect this case, because we never
   clear neither user-space pgds, nor user-space pmds in PAE mode

Eh?

munmap() --> clear_page_tables() --> free_one_pgd() --> pgd_clear

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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