From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:40:50 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] export notifier #1 In-Reply-To: <1201044989.6807.46.camel@pasglop> Message-ID: References: <20080113162418.GE8736@v2.random> <20080116124256.44033d48@bree.surriel.com> <478E4356.7030303@qumranet.com> <20080117162302.GI7170@v2.random> <478F9C9C.7070500@qumranet.com> <20080117193252.GC24131@v2.random> <20080121125204.GJ6970@v2.random> <4795F9D2.1050503@qumranet.com> <20080122144332.GE7331@v2.random> <20080122200858.GB15848@v2.random> <1201044989.6807.46.camel@pasglop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, holt@sgi.com, Hugh Dickins List-ID: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > - anon_vma/inode and pte locks are held during callbacks. > > So how does that fix the problem of sleeping then ? The locks are taken in the mmu_ops patch. This patch does not hold them while performing the callbacks. -- 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