From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, arch: Complete pagefault_disable abstraction
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 14:39:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111005143907.09283b14.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317820169.6766.20.camel@twins>
On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:09:29 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> Currently we already have pagefault_{disable,enable}() but they're
> nothing more than a glorified preempt_{disable,enable}().
That's not very accurate or useful. Unlike preempt_disable(),
pagefault_disable() will raise the preempt count when CONFIG_PREEMPT=n.
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2011-10-05 13:09 [PATCH] mm, arch: Complete pagefault_disable abstraction Peter Zijlstra
2011-10-05 21:39 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2011-10-05 13:10 Peter Zijlstra
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