On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 24 February 2006 08:01, Nick Piggin wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, as I said above, the newly allocated page is fine, it is the
> > page table pages I'm worried about.
>
> page tables are easy because we zero them on free (as a side effect
> of all the pte_clears)
But once the page table is freed, it's likely to get used for something
else, whether for another page table or something different doesn't
matter: this mm can no longer blindly mess with the entries within in.
Nick's point is that it's mmap_sem (or mm_users 0) guarding against
the page table being freed.
Hugh
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