Re: page allocation/attributes question (i386/x86_64 specific)

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On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 03:16:51PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> >> set and isn't executable.  And, since PAGE_KERNEL (with _PAGE_NX set)
> >> didn't match the original pages attributes, the 512 PTEs weren't
> >> reverted back into a large page.  (Also, __change_page_attr() did
> >> *another* get_page() on the page containing these 512 PTEs, so now
> >> the page_count has gone up to 3, instead of going back down to 1 (or
> >> staying at 2).)
> > 
> > That should be already fixed.
> 
> It doesn't appear to be fixed (in the i386 arch).  The

I only fixed it for x86-64 correct. Does it work for you on x86-64?

If yes then the changes could be brought over.

What do you all need this for anyways?

-Andi
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