From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: steve.capper@linaro.org (Steve Capper)
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:08:25 +0100
Subject: [PATH V2 5/6] arm64: mm: Enable HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE logic
In-Reply-To: <20140827104840.GH6968@arm.com>
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 <1408635812-31584-6-git-send-email-steve.capper@linaro.org>
 <20140827104840.GH6968@arm.com>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:48:41AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:43:31PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote:
> > In order to implement fast_get_user_pages we need to ensure that the
> > page table walker is protected from page table pages being freed from
> > under it.
> > 
> > This patch enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE, any page table pages belonging
> > to address spaces with multiple users will be call_rcu_sched freed.
> > Meaning that disabling interrupts will block the free and protect the
> > fast gup page walker.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
> 
> I'm happy to take this patch independently of this series. But if the
> whole series goes in via some other tree (mm):
> 
> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Thanks. If patch #1 looks okay to the mm folks, I'm hoping this patch
can be merged via the same tree.