Re: Yet more VM writable swap-cached pages

Ganesh Sittampalam (ganesh.sittampalam@ox.compsoc.net)
Thu, 9 Jul 1998 21:15:14 +0100 (BST)

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>
> The pte value above is very puzzling -- it says that the page is not
> present, in which case the "writable" bit means PROT_NONE, not writable.
> The pte value is tested immediately after dereferencing the page table
> to make sure it's present, so I don't see how we could reach this point
> without the page being present.
>
> Maybe this is a compiler bug after all ...

As I mentioned elsewhere, I'm pretty sure I'm using gcc 2.7.2.3. I have
redhat 5.1 which seems to have both gcc 2.7.2.3 and egcs installed, but
the kernel compiles seem to use gcc unless I'm missing something.

Cheers,

Ganesh

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