News [Phoronix] Linux Lands Fix For Its "Subtly Wrong" Page Fault Handling Code For The Past 5 Years

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Merged today for the Linux 6.19 Git kernel and then in turn for back-porting to prior Linux kernel series is making the x86 page fault handling code disable interrupts properly. Since 2020 it turns out the handling was subtly wrong but now corrected by Intel...

Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Page-Fault-Code-Fix

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