From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:39:19 -0800 (PST) From: Christoph Lameter Subject: Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code In-Reply-To: <20080201023113.GB26420@sgi.com> Message-ID: References: <20080131045750.855008281@sgi.com> <20080131045812.553249048@sgi.com> <20080201023113.GB26420@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 , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter Zijlstra , steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com List-ID: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote: > Jack has repeatedly pointed out needing an unregister outside the > mmap_sem. I still don't see the benefit to not having the lock in the mm. I never understood why this would be needed. ->release removes the mmu_notifier right now. -- 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