Re: 2.6.13-rc3-mm3

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Richard Purdie wrote:
> That number rapidly increases and so it looks like something is failing
> and looping...

Maybe we better restore the pte flags changes the way they were if 
CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS is not defined. Try this instead. If this works 
then we need two different handle_pte_fault functions to get rid of the 
macro mess:

Index: linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/memory.c	2005-08-01 12:59:49.000000000 -0700
+++ linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/mm/memory.c	2005-08-01 15:08:31.000000000 -0700
@@ -2094,6 +2094,7 @@
 		entry = pte_mkdirty(entry);
 	}
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_ATOMIC_TABLE_OPS
 	/*
 	 * If the cmpxchg fails then another processor may have done
 	 * the changes for us. If not then another fault will bring
@@ -2106,6 +2107,11 @@
 	} else {
 		inc_page_state(cmpxchg_fail_flag_update);
 	}
+#else
+	ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, pte, entry, write_access);
+	update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
+	lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
+#endif
 
 	pte_unmap(pte);
 	page_table_atomic_stop(mm);
Index: linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/mm/memory.o
===================================================================
Binary files linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1.orig/mm/memory.o	2005-08-01 15:03:10.000000000 -0700 and linux-2.6.13-rc4-mm1/mm/memory.o	2005-08-01 15:09:50.000000000 -0700 differ
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