Re: alloc_area_pte: page already exists

[Bjorn Wesen]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > task or something instead (there is no kernel context for the "calling"
> > process because the driver is asynchronous so the context which did the
> > alloc_kiovec etc. has exited when the irq comes later) and see if it works
> > better.
> 
> Ok.

I realised I'm not entirely sure on if it's ok to do such "dangerous"
functions inside, say, tq_immediate using queue_task even ? Doesn't that
run in the interrupt context also, upon exit of the interrupt before going
back ?

I haven't followed the latest bh/tasklet/softirq development really..

IOW I want the irq to "trigger" the freeing of the iovecs but it's ok if
it's done later, as long as it's done without any races :)

BTW how does vfree cope with not walking all tasks pgd's to remove the
relevant pte's ? Doesn't that give exactly this kind of problem ? (pte's
are there despite them being deallocated)

/Bjorn