Re: [PATCH 31 of 66] split_huge_page anon_vma ordering dependency

Mel Gorman
2010-11-18T15:14:13Z

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 04:28:06PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
>
> This documents how split_huge_page is safe vs new vma inserctions into
> the anon_vma that may have already released the anon_vma->lock but not
> established pmds yet when split_huge_page starts.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>

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