Re: dax pmd fault handler never returns to userspace

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Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Yea, my first round of testing was broken, sorry about that.
>
> It looks like this test causes the PMD fault handler to be called repeatedly
> over and over until you kill the userspace process.  This doesn't happen for
> XFS because when using XFS this test doesn't hit PMD faults, only PTE faults.

Hmm, I wonder why not?  Sounds like that will need investigating as
well, right?

-Jeff

> So, looks like a livelock as far as I can tell.
>
> Still debugging.

Thanks!
Jeff
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