Re: test10-pre2

From: Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 20:49:08 EDT

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    Doesn't boot on alpha systems with pci-pci bridges. I sent a report about
    this a couple days ago and noone responds.

    > There's a test10-2 out there.
    >
    > Notable change to people Cc'd on this mail: this contains the fix for the
    > vmalloc() and ioremap() race condition, which deletes the set_pgdir()
    > function and instead depends on the page table entries being distributed
    > to the other page directories automatically. Some architectures can do
    > this naturally by just sharing the kernrel pgd entries with "init_mm",
    > others, like the x86, need a dynamic page fault handler path for this.
    >
    > See the arch/x86/mm/fault.c changes to see what arch-specific changes this
    > can entail.
    >
    > Other changes are fairly straightforward..
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