Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Feb 2008 17:35:28 -0600 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: [patch 2/4] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges |
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On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 03:19:32PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > > > We are getting this callout when we transition the pte from a read-only > > to read-write. Jack and I can not see a reason we would need that > > callout. It is causing problems for xpmem in that a write fault goes > > to get_user_pages which gets back to do_wp_page that does the callout. > > Right. You placed it there in the first place. So we can drop the code > from do_wp_page?
No, we need a callout when we are becoming more restrictive, but not when becoming more permissive. I would have to guess that is the case for any of these callouts. It is for both GRU and XPMEM. I would expect the same is true for KVM, but would like a ruling from Andrea on that.
Thanks, Robin
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