From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: generalise COW SMC TLB flushing race comment
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 13:36:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201215133641.GR2443@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201215121119.351650-1-npiggin@gmail.com>
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:11:19PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> I'm not sure if I'm completely missing something here, but AFAIKS the
> reference to the mysterious "COW SMC race" confuses the issue. The original
> changelog and mailing list thread didn't help me either.
Also, I had no idea that SMC meant Self Modifying Code until
you prompted me to go and look up the commit. I thought it meant
the Japanese corporation. So this commit is a big improvement.
It's the only place we use the acronym 'SMC' in mm/
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-15 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-15 12:11 Nicholas Piggin
2020-12-15 13:36 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2020-12-18 18:58 ` Andrew Morton
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