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From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
	Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:33:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805151031250.18708@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080515075747.GA7177@wotan.suse.de>

On Thu, 15 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:

> Oh, I get that confused because of the mixed up naming conventions
> there: unmap_page_range should actually be called zap_page_range. But
> at any rate, yes we can easily zap pagetables without holding mmap_sem.

How is that synchronized with code that walks the same pagetable. These 
walks may not hold mmap_sem either. I would expect that one could only 
remove a portion of the pagetable where we have some sort of guarantee 
that no accesses occur. So the removal of the vma prior ensures that?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-15 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 106+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07 14:35 [PATCH 00 of 11] mmu notifier #v16 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 01 of 11] mmu-notifier-core Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 17:35   ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-07 20:02   ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 20:05   ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 20:30     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 21:58       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 22:11         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 22:27           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 22:31             ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2008-05-07 22:39               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 23:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 22:37             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 23:38               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 23:00             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 02 of 11] get_task_mm Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 15:59   ` Robin Holt
2008-05-07 16:20     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 03 of 11] invalidate_page outside PT lock Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 17:39   ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-07 17:57     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 04 of 11] free-pgtables Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 17:41   ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 05 of 11] unmap vmas tlb flushing Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 17:46   ` Rik van Riel
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 06 of 11] rwsem contended Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 07 of 11] i_mmap_rwsem Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 20:56   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 21:26     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 21:36       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 22:22         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 22:31           ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 22:44             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 22:59               ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-07 23:19                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 23:39                   ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-08  0:03                     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  0:52                       ` Robin Holt
2008-05-08  0:56                       ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-08  1:07                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  1:39                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  1:52                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  1:57                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  2:24                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  2:32                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 23:39                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  1:02                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  1:12                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-08  1:32                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  2:56                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  3:10                         ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-08  3:41                           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  4:14                             ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  5:20                               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  5:27                                 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-08  5:30                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-08  5:49                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08 15:03                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 16:11                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08 22:01                                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-09 18:37                                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-09 18:55                                       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-09 19:04                                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-05-08  1:26                     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 23:28               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-07 23:45                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-08  1:34                   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-13 12:14                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-14  5:43                       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-05-14  6:06                         ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-14 13:15                         ` Jack Steiner
2008-05-07 22:44           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-07 22:58             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 23:02               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 23:09               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-08  0:38         ` Robin Holt
2008-05-08  0:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-13 12:06           ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-13 15:32             ` Robin Holt
2008-05-14  4:11               ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-14 11:26                 ` Robin Holt
2008-05-14 15:18                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 16:22                     ` Robin Holt
2008-05-14 16:56                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-14 17:57                     ` Christoph Lameter
2008-05-14 18:27                       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-17  1:38                         ` mm notifier: Notifications when pages are unmapped Christoph Lameter
2008-05-15  7:57                   ` [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem Nick Piggin
2008-05-15 11:01                     ` Robin Holt
2008-05-15 11:12                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-05-15 17:33                     ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-05-15 23:52                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-16 11:23                         ` Robin Holt
2008-05-16 11:50                           ` Robin Holt
2008-05-20  5:31                             ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-20 10:01                               ` Robin Holt
2008-05-20 10:50                                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-20 11:05                                   ` Robin Holt
2008-05-20 11:14                                     ` Nick Piggin
2008-05-20 11:26                                       ` Robin Holt
2008-05-07 22:42       ` Jack Steiner
2008-05-07 14:35 ` [PATCH 09 of 11] mm_lock-rwsem Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:36 ` [PATCH 10 of 11] export zap_page_range for XPMEM Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-07 14:36 ` [PATCH 11 of 11] mmap sems Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-02 15:05 [PATCH 00 of 11] mmu notifier #v15 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-05-02 15:05 ` [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem Andrea Arcangeli

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