Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Nov 2019 18:04:56 -0800 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: Take read_lock on i_mmap for PMD sharing |
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On Thu, 07 Nov 2019, Mike Kravetz wrote:
>Note that huge_pmd_share now increments the page count with the semaphore >held just in read mode. It is OK to do increments in parallel without >synchronization. However, we don't want anyone else changing the count >while that check in huge_pmd_unshare is happening. Hence, the need for >taking the semaphore in write mode.
This would be a nice addition to the changelog methinks.
Thanks, Davidlohr
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