From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Ashwin Rao <ashwin_s_rao@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: Atomic operation for physically moving a page
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 19:43:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1087613018.4921.29.camel@nighthawk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040619003712.35865.qmail@web10904.mail.yahoo.com>
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 17:37, Ashwin Rao wrote:
> I want to copy a page from one physical location to
> another (taking the appr. locks). To keep the
> operation of copying and updation of all ptes and
> caches atomic one way proposed by my team members was
> to sleep the processes accessing the page.
How do you make sure that no more processes begin to access the page
while you're doing your work?
BTW, look at the swap code :)
-- Dave
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-19 2:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-19 0:37 Ashwin Rao
2004-06-19 1:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-19 2:53 ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-19 3:15 ` Atomic operation for physically moving a page (for memory defragmentation) Ashwin Rao
2004-06-19 3:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-19 4:25 ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-23 9:04 ` IWAMOTO Toshihiro
2004-06-23 11:59 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-06-23 20:56 ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-24 7:19 ` IWAMOTO Toshihiro
2004-06-24 11:31 ` Dave Hansen
2004-06-23 10:32 ` Hirokazu Takahashi
2004-06-19 2:43 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
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