Re: [PATCH 4/10] I386 pgd clone under lock fix.patch

From: William Lee Irwin III
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 20:29:02 EST


On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:06:11PM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Copying of the pgd range must happen under the pgd_lock. This got broken by
> the paravirt changes in the -mm tree. Badness can result if you copy the pgd
> before being added to the list when splitting or rejoining large pages.
> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>

Sorry my review missed this.

Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


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