On Wed, 14 May 2008 00:25:07 +0100 Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:50:50PM +0300, Ilpo J__rvinen wrote: > > > In case this is a genuine bug, somebody else more familiar > > with that stuff should evaluate it's effects (I just found it > > by some shell pipeline and it seems suspicious looking). > > Should be fairly as proven by practice; it's there since day of of 64-bit > pagetable for 32-bit hw support which was November 29, 2004. > It's unlikely that anyone would notice an error in pte_mkyoung(). It will affect page reclaim behaviour and _might_ be demonstrable with a carefully set up test. But an error in here won't cause crashes or lockups or anything. What this needs is someone who understands the architecture (ie: you ;)) to take a look, please.
