Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:56:13 +0900 | From | Joonsoo Kim <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 07/20] mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling |
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:27:38PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> writes: > > > Currently, to track a reserved and allocated region, we use two different > > ways for MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE. For MAP_SHARED, we use > > address_mapping's private_list and, for MAP_PRIVATE, we use a resv_map. > > Now, we are preparing to change a coarse grained lock which protect > > a region structure to fine grained lock, and this difference hinder it. > > So, before changing it, unify region structure handling. > > > > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> > > As mentioned earlier kref_put is confusing because we always have > reference count == 1 , otherwise
Okay. In that case, I will use release function directly.
> > Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Thanks!
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