Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:15:32 +0100 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 |
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On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:01:22AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > API still has rcu issues and the example given for making things sleepable > is only working for the aging callback. The most important callback is for > try_to_unmao and page_mkclean. This means the API is still not generic > enough and likely not extendable as needed in its present form.
I converted only one of those _notify as an example of how it should be done, because I assumed you volunteer to convert the other ones yourself during .26. It's useless to convert all of them right now, because the i_mmap_lock and anon_vma locks are still going to be spinlocks in .25.
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