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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04 of 12] Moves all mmu notifier methods outside the PT lock (first and not last
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:24:21PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Reverts a part of an earlier patch. Why isnt this merged into 1 of 12?
>
> To give zero regression risk to 1/12 when MMU_NOTIFIER=y or =n and the
> mmu notifiers aren't registered by GRU or KVM. Keep in mind that the
> whole point of my proposed patch ordering from day 0, is to keep as
> 1/N, the absolutely minimum change that fully satisfy GRU and KVM
> requirements. 4/12 isn't required by GRU/KVM so I keep it in a later
> patch. I now moved mmu_notifier_unregister in a later patch too for
> the same reason.

We want a full solution and this kind of patching makes the patches
difficuilt to review because later patches revert earlier ones.



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