Re: [patch 2/2] fix SMP data race in pagetable setup vs walking

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On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:08:03AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 14:12:40 +0200
> 
> > I only converted x86 and powerpc. I think comments in x86 are good because
> > that is more or less the reference implementation and is where many VM
> > developers would look to understand mm/ code. Commenting all page table
> > walking in all other architectures is kind of beyond my skill or patience,
> > and maintainers might consider this weird "alpha thingy" is below them ;)
> > But they are quite free to add smp_read_barrier_depends to their own code.
> > 
> > Still would like more acks on this before it is applied.
> 
> I've read this over a few times, I think it's OK:
> 
> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks a lot for that (and the others who reviewed). Gives me more
confidence.
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