From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:15:32 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8 Message-ID: <20080303211532.GX8091@v2.random> References: <20080219231157.GC18912@wotan.suse.de> <20080220010941.GR7128@v2.random> <20080220103942.GU7128@v2.random> <20080221045430.GC15215@wotan.suse.de> <20080221144023.GC9427@v2.random> <20080221161028.GA14220@sgi.com> <20080227192610.GF28483@v2.random> <20080302155457.GK8091@v2.random> <20080303032934.GA3301@wotan.suse.de> 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: Nick Piggin , Jack Steiner , akpm@linux-foundation.org, Robin Holt , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter Zijlstra , general@lists.openfabrics.org, Steve Wise , Roland Dreier , Kanoj Sarcar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com List-ID: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:01:22AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > API still has rcu issues and the example given for making things sleepable > is only working for the aging callback. The most important callback is for > try_to_unmao and page_mkclean. This means the API is still not generic > enough and likely not extendable as needed in its present form. I converted only one of those _notify as an example of how it should be done, because I assumed you volunteer to convert the other ones yourself during .26. It's useless to convert all of them right now, because the i_mmap_lock and anon_vma locks are still going to be spinlocks in .25. -- 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