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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: mulix@mulix.org, arjanv@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:35:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030826193552.GU4306@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030826102931.28ecb5aa.akpm@osdl.org>

William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>>  Then it sounds relatively easy to localize the search structure (if you
>>  care to do so),

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:29:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The "group of all processes which could potentially (or really do) share a
> chunk of anon memory" thing sounds tricky.

Not really; it's just a random data structure with very low odds of
proliferating. Hugh did it once (for anobjrmap) and I rearranged and/or
rewrote it to suit my preferences (I think I RCU'd the lock in it or
some ridiculous nonsense on that order).


William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
>> apart from a policy decision about what on earth to do
>>  about waiters on truncated futexes.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 10:29:31AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> erk, screwed.

Well, the decision is essentially arbitrary, it just has to be made
(and by definition some decision is being made regardless of what the
implementation does or fails to do). 


-- wli

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-26 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-26  3:12 [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix Rusty Russell
2003-08-26  4:06 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26  5:30   ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-26  5:50     ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26  5:58       ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-26  6:14         ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26  6:36           ` Ingo Molnar
2003-08-26  7:02             ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26  7:56               ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-26  8:08                 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-08-26  8:11                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-08-26  8:25                   ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26  9:02                     ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-08-26 10:38                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-26 10:44                     ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 10:45                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-26 17:29                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-26 19:35                           ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-08-27  5:17   ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-27  6:20     ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-28  0:47       ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-28  8:21         ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-29  3:46           ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-29  4:17             ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-30  7:49               ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-01  0:35             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-01  4:11               ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-01 20:57                 ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-02  3:12                   ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-02  6:51                     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-02 16:14                       ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-02 19:54                         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-02 20:15                           ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-02 21:20                             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03  2:40                         ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-03  7:36                           ` [PATCH] Alternate futex non-page-pinning and COW fix Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 11:19                             ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 14:38                               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 17:39                               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 17:55                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-03 18:06                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 18:19                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-03 18:43                                       ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 19:05                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-03 19:40                                           ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-03 20:04                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04  2:43                                           ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-04  8:28                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 12:20                                               ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 15:40                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 16:55                                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 18:38                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 18:46                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 20:04                                               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:49                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 22:10                                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 17:16                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 17:38                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 18:42                                       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-04 18:42                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2003-09-05  3:55                                     ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-05 17:55                                       ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 17:26                                   ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04  1:30                               ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-04 21:00                                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-05  5:19                                   ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-05 20:54                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-07  6:45                                       ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-07 13:20                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08  1:49                                           ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-08  9:44                                             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03 14:40                             ` [PATCH 2] Little fixes to previous futex patch Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 16:45                               ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 17:59                                 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 18:35                                   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 20:11                                     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04 21:36                                       ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-04 21:58                                         ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-07  7:23                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2003-09-07 12:27                                           ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-07 15:03                                             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08  1:56                                             ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-07 13:00                                           ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08  3:32                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2003-09-08  9:33                                               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-08  9:57                                                 ` Ingo Molnar
2003-09-05  4:56                                   ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-03 15:34                             ` [PATCH] Alternate futex non-page-pinning and COW fix Andrew Morton
2003-09-03 17:16                               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-04  1:35                             ` Rusty Russell
2003-09-04 17:35                               ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-03  0:14                       ` [PATCH 2/2] Futex non-page-pinning fix Rusty Russell
2003-09-03  1:16                         ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-03  1:54                           ` Dave Hansen
2003-09-03  2:54                             ` Andrew Morton
2003-09-02  3:23                   ` Hugh Dickins
2003-09-02 23:58                     ` Rusty Russell
2003-08-27  8:37     ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-27  8:56       ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-08-27 10:38       ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-27 10:57         ` Hugh Dickins
2003-08-28  8:03       ` Rusty Russell

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