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Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 23:04:50 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
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Subject: Re: mremap() pte allocation atomicity error
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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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