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* [PATCH 0/8] mm: Preemptibility -v8
@ 2011-02-17 17:05 Peter Zijlstra
  2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/8] lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock Peter Zijlstra
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From: Peter Zijlstra @ 2011-02-17 17:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrea Arcangeli, Avi Kivity, Thomas Gleixner, Rik van Riel,
	Ingo Molnar, akpm, Linus Torvalds
  Cc: linux-kernel, linux-arch, linux-mm, Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
	David Miller, Hugh Dickins, Mel Gorman, Nick Piggin,
	Peter Zijlstra, Paul McKenney, Yanmin Zhang

This series depends on the previous two series:
  - mm: Simplify anon_vma lifetime rules
  - mm: mmu_gather rework

These patches make part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes which together with the mmu_gather
rework makes mmu_gather preemptible as well.

Making i_mmap_lock a mutex also enables a clean-up of the truncate code.

This also allows for preemptible mmu_notifiers, something that XPMEM I think
wants.



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2011-02-17 17:05 [PATCH 0/8] mm: Preemptibility -v8 Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 1/8] lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 2/8] mm: Remove i_mmap_mutex lockbreak Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:46   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 3/8] mm: Convert i_mmap_lock to a mutex Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 4/8] mm: Revert page_lock_anon_vma() lock annotation Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 5/8] mm: Improve page_lock_anon_vma() comment Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 6/8] mm: Use refcounts for page_lock_anon_vma() Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: Convert anon_vma->lock to a mutex Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:05 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: Optimize page_lock_anon_vma() fast-path Peter Zijlstra
2011-02-17 17:36 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: Preemptibility -v8 Peter Zijlstra

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