From: "Manfred Spraul" <masp0008@stud.uni-sb.de>
To: "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" <blah@kvack.org>
Cc: Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: active_mm & SMP & TLB flush: possible bug
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:58:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <004001bed91c$177667a0$c80c17ac@clmsdev.local> (raw)
>> BTW, where can I find more details about the active_mm implementation?
>> specifically, I'd like to know why active_mm was added to
>> "struct task_struct".
>> >From my first impression, it's a CPU specific information
>> (every CPU has exactly one active_mm, threads which are not running have
>> no
>> active_mm), so I'd have used a global array[NR_CPUS].
>
>That soulds like a good idea -- care to offer a patch? =)
I still try to understand the current implementation, and I can't propose a
patch before I understand the current code...
I'll try to write a patch over the weekend.
Manfred
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1999-07-28 16:58 Manfred Spraul [this message]
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1999-07-28 18:35 Manfred Spraul, Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-07-28 12:30 Manfred Spraul
1999-07-28 15:46 ` Benjamin C.R. LaHaise
1999-07-28 18:07 ` Kanoj Sarcar
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