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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	riel@redhat.com, walken@google.com, aarcange@redhat.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mremap: take anon_vma lock in shared mode
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 14:30:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141104123021.GB28274@node.dhcp.inet.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1411032204420.15596@eggly.anvils>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:08:31PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Oct 2014, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > There's no modification to anon_vma interval tree. We only need to
> > serialize against exclusive rmap walker who want s to catch all ptes the
> > page is mapped with. Shared lock is enough for that.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> 
> NAK: please read Michel's comment on need_rmap_locks again, there is
> no point in using read locks on anon_vma (and i_mmap) here, those will
> not exclude the read locks on anon_vma (and i_mmap) in the rmap walk,
> while we move ptes around.
> 
> Or am I confused?

Andrew, please drop the patch.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

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      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-04 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-28 14:40 Kirill A. Shutemov
2014-10-28 15:24 ` Rik van Riel
2014-11-04  6:08 ` Hugh Dickins
2014-11-04 12:30   ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]

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