[PATCH] mm: Avoid using set_pte_at when updating a present pte
Linus Torvalds
torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Fri Oct 9 04:09:06 AEDT 2020
Ahh, and I should learn to read all my emails before replying to some of them..
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 2:26 AM Aneesh Kumar K.V
<aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> This avoids the below warning
> [..]
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 30613 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185
set_pte_at+0x2a8/0x3a0 arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:185
.. and I assume this is what triggered the other patch too.
Yes, with the ppc warning, we need to do _something_ about this, and
at that point I think the "something" is to just avoid the pte
wrpritect trick.
Linus
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