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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/13] mm: Update ptep_get_lockless()s comment
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 1:24 PM Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> wrote:
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> That's why GUP-fast re-checks the PTE after it has grabbed a reference
> to the page.

Bah. I should have known that. We got that through the PPC version
that never had the whole IPI serialization thing (just the RCU
freeing).

I haven't looked at that code in much too long.

Actually, by "much too long" I really mean "thankfully I haven't needed to" ;)

Linus

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