Re: x86_64: potential critical issue with quicklists and page table pages

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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> 
> The quicklists collect pages while we gather pages for TLB flushing. 
> These pages must be kept until the actual TLB flush has occurred. The 
> optimization of releasing off node pages early is therefore not valid.

That should be the "mmu_gather" structure, not the quicklists.

		Linus
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