[PATCH 2/5] ppc64: make high hugepage areas preempt safe
David Gibson
david at gibson.dropbear.id.au
Wed Nov 1 14:42:00 EST 2006
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:40:39PM +0000, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Checking source for other get_paca()->field preemption dangers found that
> open_high_hpage_areas does a structure copy into its paca while preemption
> is enabled: unsafe however gcc accomplishes it. Just remove that copy:
> it's done safely afterwards by on_each_cpu, as in open_low_hpage_areas.
Oops, when I fixed the other problems with the PACA loading here, I
guess I missed this redundant assignment.
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh at veritas.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg at au1.ibm.com>
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