RE: [uml-devel] Could you explain this strange fix?

[Markus H. <mh...@as...>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use...@li...=20
> On Behalf Of Jeff Dike
> Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:23 PM
> To: BlaisorBlade
> Cc: use...@li...
> Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Could you explain this strange fix?=20
>=20
> bla...@ya... said:
> > This hunk comes straight from 2.4.24-3um. Could you explain it?=20
>=20
> It showed up when I was doing profiling.  I looked at it and=20
> decided it was
> a tt mode holdover, since when you flush a process address=20
> space in skas mode,=20
> that normally doesn't need to look at the kernel's address space.
>=20
> > Are you sure  it's safe?
>=20
> I was, but I forgot about modules.
>=20
> 				Jeff
ok :-)

i'm wondering about nobody asked or discussed this issue...

i wasted several nights and tested around 42 combinations of
host/UML/gcc versions...
but finally the removed "optimization" solved all my wired
iptables/netfilter problems.


markus