Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 26 May 2004, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> Hrm... Still dies, some kind of loop it seems, I'll have a look

Are you sure the it's not just taking infinite page fault because we keep 
reloading the old value from the hash tables? That "hash fault" thing 
still doesn't convince me. Why should the hash-refill fastpath ever look 
at the software page tables?

		Linus
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