2006-08-11 09:29:51

by Zachary Amsden

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Subject: [PATCH 1/9] 00mm1 remove read hazard from cow.patch

We don't want to read PTEs directly like this after they have been
modified, as a lazy MMU implementation of direct page tables may not
have written the updated PTE back to memory yet.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]

---
mm/memory.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


===================================================================
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -466,7 +466,7 @@ copy_one_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm, s
*/
if (is_cow_mapping(vm_flags)) {
ptep_set_wrprotect(src_mm, addr, src_pte);
- pte = *src_pte;
+ pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
}

/*