Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> On Monday, 28 of January 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> Actually, no.  We only do that with the kernel code mapping which should be
>>> safe as long as TLBs are not flushed (and they aren't).
>>>   
>> Er, what?  Assuming the TLB will retain some mappings while you 
>> overwrite the pagetable is a highly dubious prospect.  Are you copying 
>> the same values over, or something else?
> 
> As long as a relocatable kernel is not used to restore a non-relocatable one
> (or vice versa), we're copying the same values over.
> 

So that case is deliberately considered broken?

	-hpa
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