Re: [patch] mm: fix a race condition under SMC + COW

From: "Siddha, Suresh B" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:23:55 -0700

> I am flushing the pte entry in ptep_clear_flush() and it is Ok not
> to do another TLB flush after doing set_pte_at().
> 
> On Sparc64, this new set_pte_at() (after ptep_clear_flush) will not batch
> any TLB flush as the previous pte contents were zero.
> 
> We are Ok with this patch, isn't it?

Ok, it seems PowerPC also has the "don't do anything if previous PTE
was zero" logic.  So yes, it should be ok.

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