Re: [PATCH -rt] update kmap_atomic on !HIGHMEM

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Wed Dec 27 2006 - 16:37:55 EST


On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 22:25 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I got some scheduling while atomic on x86-64 , and since x86-64
> > doesn't seem to have HIGHMEM there's no workaround for kmap_atomic() .
> >
> > This patch adds the same as i386 HIGHMEM for !HIGHMEM.
>
> the problem is that this does not disable pagefaulting while
> kmap-atomic. Could you try the patch below, does it solve the assert?
>

That goes for the other CONFIG_HIGHMEM changes also? I mean if we can't
do it here we shouldn't do it else where..

(note, I just used testscripts/ltpstress.sh from LTP to reproduce this.)

Daniel

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