Re: mremap() pte allocation atomicity error

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:04:50 -0700


On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 10:54:54PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A simple fix would be to drop the atomic kmap of the source pte
> and take it again after the alloc_one_pte_map() call.
> Can you think of a more efficient way?

Not one that isn't highly invasive, no. This is what I had in mind
for the easy fix.

Cheers,
Bill
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