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Commit 71c9d8b6 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Ingo Molnar
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x86: Remove remap percpu allocator for the time being



Remap percpu allocator has subtle bug when combined with page
attribute changing.  Remap percpu allocator aliases PMD pages for the
first chunk and as pageattr doesn't know about the alias it ends up
updating page attributes of the original mapping thus leaving the
alises in inconsistent state which might lead to subtle data
corruption.  Please read the following threads for more information:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/835783

The following is the proposed fix which teaches pageattr about percpu
aliases.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/837157

However, the above changes are deemed too pervasive for upstream
inclusion for 2.6.30 release, so this patch essentially disables
the remap allocator for the time being.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A1A0A27.4050301@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 0af48f42
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