Re: [PATCH] Use correct page protection for put_dirty_page

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Sun, 11 May 2003 10:36:02 +0200


On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 10:30:35AM +0200, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> We know which vma is involved at the callsite and what we just set its
> vma->vm_page_prot to; I suggest this patch instead.

No that won't work. On x86-64 VM_STACK_FLAGS looks at the current
thread state if it's an 32bit or 64bit process, and that's not decided
at that point yet.

-Andi
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