Re: bisected boot regression post 2.6.25-rc3.. please revert

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Mar 03 2008 - 12:56:40 EST



* Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > in any case, the commit has to be reverted as it clearly isnt a NOP
> > on your box as it was intended to be. (it should only have made a
> > difference in a rare hugetlbfs case)
>
> On x86/{,_64}, _PAGE_PSE and _PAGE_PROTNONE are the same bit. Would
> that have any effect here? We encountered that collision when adding
> mprotect() support for hugepages.

well, this is the PMD, and PROTNONE is a pte property.

Ingo
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