From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] rmap: parisc __flush_dcache_page
Date: 08 Apr 2004 08:52:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1081432370.2105.77.camel@mulgrave> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404081422380.7010-100000@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 08:41, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> Something to notice about that parisc __flush_dcache_page I sent you:
> there's no locking around searching the tree for vmas; there was never
> any locking around searching the list for vmas. arm is similar, but
> at least has no CONFIG_SMP, just a preemption issue. Any ideas?
I don't think you sent it to the parisc list?
I'm afraid we've just been pretty heavily updating flush_dcache_page
recently to fill a number of holes in the implementation.
As far as list traversal goes...we don't require the list to freeze:
acidentally flushing dead vmas would be harmless and added ones wouldn't
need flushing, so all we need would probably be a safe traversal and a
reference to prevent the vma being deallocated.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-08 13:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-08 13:41 rmap: parisc __flush_dcache_page Hugh Dickins
2004-04-08 13:52 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2004-04-08 14:16 ` [parisc-linux] " Hugh Dickins
2004-04-08 14:40 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 15:14 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 15:28 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 15:34 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 15:47 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 16:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 16:29 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 17:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 17:43 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 17:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 18:07 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 18:18 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 18:28 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 18:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-08 18:49 ` James Bottomley
2004-04-08 19:02 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-04-10 1:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2004-04-08 15:35 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-04-08 16:13 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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