Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86,mem-hotplug: pass sync_global_pgds() a correct argument in remove_pagetable()

From: Toshi Kani
Date: Fri Jun 20 2014 - 14:36:47 EST


On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 15:37 +0900, Yasuaki Ishimatsu wrote:
> remove_pagetable() gets start argument and passes the argument to
> sync_global_pgds(). In this case, the argument must not be modified.
> If the argument is modified and passed to sync_global_pgds(),
> sync_global_pgds() does not correctly synchronize PGD to PGD entries
> of all processes MM since synchronized range of memory [start, end]
> is wrong.
>
> Unfortunately the start argument is modified in remove_pagetable().
> So this patch fixes the issue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx>

Thanks,
-Toshi


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