From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:02:01 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 6/6] mmu_notifier: Add invalidate_all() In-Reply-To: <20080129163158.GX3058@sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <20080128202840.974253868@sgi.com> <20080128202924.810792591@sgi.com> <20080129163158.GX3058@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Robin Holt Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , Nick Piggin , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Peter Zijlstra , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins List-ID: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > What is the status of getting invalidate_all adjusted to indicate a need > to also call _release? Release is only called if the mmu_notifier is still registered. If you take it out on invalidate_all then there will be no call to release (provided you deal with the RCU issues). -- 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