On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:03:33PM -0800, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> > NULL dereferences don't cause a page fault if the 4th level pagetable
> > being used is init_level4_pgt because we never zap_low_mappings. Since
> > the idle thread uses init_level4_pgt any bad dereferences happening there
> > (e.g. from interrupts) won't cause a fault. Andi would you be fine with
> > switching the idle threads to a different level4?
>
> That recently changed. Are you sure it's still the case?
>
> idle threads should always run with lazy TLB, no different mms.
> That's important for performance.
>
> If a NULL reference causes a oops or not depends on if user space
> from the last process mapped a page to NULL or not.
Ah thanks Andi, yes NULL reference causes an oops in the current -git
repository, i hadn't seen that change so i had last tested it on 2.6.13.
Sorry for the noise.
Zwane
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