Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:14:26 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04 of 12] Moves all mmu notifier methods outside the PT lock (first and not last |
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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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