From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758299Ab0JUV0h (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:26:37 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:39011 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752931Ab0JUV0g (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:26:36 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC0B006.7040008@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:26:30 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100921 Fedora/3.1.4-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge CC: the arch/x86 maintainers , "Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Ian Campbell , Jan Beulich Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: hold mm->page_table_lock while doing vmalloc_sync References: <4CB76E8B.2090309@goop.org> <4CC0AB73.8060609@goop.org> In-Reply-To: <4CC0AB73.8060609@goop.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/21/2010 02:06 PM, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Ping? Have you had any thoughts about possible x86-64 problems with this? > > Thanks, > J I didn't find any, so I already committed your patch to tip:x86/mm two days ago. Now, it's worth noting that Linus has asked us to get rid of vmalloc_sync_all() completely, which would be a good thing in the longer term. -hpa