From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v4)
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:45:09 +0530
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Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>>  @@ -227,8 +227,9 @@ struct mm_struct {
>>         /* aio bits */
>>         rwlock_t                ioctx_list_lock;
>>         struct kioctx           *ioctx_list;
>>  -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
>>  -       struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
>>  +#ifdef CONFIG_MM_OWNER
>>  +       struct task_struct *owner;      /* The thread group leader that */
>>  +                                       /* owns the mm_struct.          */
>>   #endif
> 
> Yes, please. This is useful for the revokeat() patches as well. I
> currently need a big ugly loop to scan each task so I can break COW of
> private pages.

Hi, Pekka,

It's good to know that this will be useful. I think understand your use case of
having to walk the entire tasklist to break COW of private pages, having the
owner information right in the mm_struct is definitely useful.


-- 
	Warm Regards,
	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL