Re: [PATCH v9 2/4] powerpc: Fixes for CONFIG_PTE_64BIT for SMP support

2008-09-23 Thread Becky Bruce
On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:09 PM, Kumar Gala wrote: There are some minor issues with support 64-bit PTEs on a 32-bit processor when dealing with SMP. * We need to order the stores in set_pte_at to make sure the flag word is set second. * Change pte_clear to use pte_update so only the flag word

[PATCH v9 2/4] powerpc: Fixes for CONFIG_PTE_64BIT for SMP support

2008-09-18 Thread Kumar Gala
There are some minor issues with support 64-bit PTEs on a 32-bit processor when dealing with SMP. * We need to order the stores in set_pte_at to make sure the flag word is set second. * Change pte_clear to use pte_update so only the flag word is cleared * Added a WARN_ON to set_pte_at to ensure