Re: ptep_establish/establish_pte needs set_pte_atomic and all set_pte must be written in asm

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2004 at 07:41:52AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Wouldn't it make sense to call set_pte_atomic, and just have that resolve
> to set_pte on 90% of arches? (I'm ignoring the wierdo compiler issue here,
> this is just for arches with pte > long). 

I also like this more, since it betters defines that set_pte really
cannot be called on an established pte in common code [i.e. the bug
triggering on x86] (and asm-generic is common code).
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