Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:00:31 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Tebulin <tebulin@googlemail.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>,
        KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
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        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [Bug] Reproducible data corruption on i5-3340M: Please continue
 your great work! :-)
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On Thu 15-08-13 17:33:28, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Ben Tebulin <tebulin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Ben, please test. I'm worried that the problem you see is something
> >> even more fundamentally wrong with the whole "oops, must flush in the
> >> middle" logic, but I'm _hoping_ this fixes it.
> >
> > It's gone.
> >
> > Really!
> >
> > I git-fsck'ed successfully around 30 times in a row.
> > And even all the other things still seem to work ;-)
> 
> Goodie. I think I'm just going to commit it (with the speling fixes
> for other architectures) asap. It's bigger than I'd like, but it's a
> lot simpler than the alternatives of trying to figure out exactly
> which call chain got things wrong with the previous confusing model.

I was thinking about teaching __tlb_remove_page to update the range
automatically from the given address.

But your patch looks good to me as well.

Feel free to add
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

Thanks!
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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