From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:28:05 -0600 From: Jack Steiner Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges Message-ID: <20080130002804.GA13840@sgi.com> References: <20080128202840.974253868@sgi.com> <20080128202923.849058104@sgi.com> <20080129162004.GL7233@v2.random> <20080129211759.GV7233@v2.random> <20080129220212.GX7233@v2.random> <20080130000039.GA7233@v2.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Robin Holt , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , Nick Piggin , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins List-ID: On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 04:20:50PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > invalidate_range after populate allows access to memory for which ptes > > > were zapped and the refcount was released. > > > > The last refcount is released by the invalidate_range itself. > > That is true for your implementation and to address Robin's issues. Jack: > Is that true for the GRU? I'm not sure I understand the question. The GRU never (currently) takes a reference on a page. It has no mechanism for tracking pages that were exported to the external TLBs. --- jack -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org