Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and page table pages

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To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>

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Subject: Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and page table pages

Date: Friday, September 21, 2007 - 2:55 pm

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
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> The quicklists collect pages while we gather pages for TLB flushing. 
> These pages must be kept until the actual TLB flush has occurred. The 
> optimization of releasing off node pages early is therefore not valid.

That should be the "mmu_gather" structure, not the quicklists.

		Linus
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x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and page ta..., Siddha, Suresh B, (Fri Sep 21, 2:07 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Sep 21, 2:48 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 21, 2:48 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Sep 21, 2:50 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 21, 2:55 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 21, 3:05 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Sep 21, 3:07 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 21, 3:21 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Sep 24, 5:27 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Sep 24, 5:42 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Sep 24, 8:09 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Sep 21, 3:26 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 21, 3:40 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Sep 21, 3:56 pm)

RE: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Luck, Tony, (Fri Sep 21, 3:59 pm)

RE: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Sep 21, 4:15 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Linus Torvalds, (Fri Sep 21, 3:44 pm)

Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and pag..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Sep 21, 2:18 pm)

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