From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 22:10:47 +0000 (GMT) From: Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v3 In-Reply-To: <20080122203125.GC15848@v2.random> Message-ID: References: <20080113162418.GE8736@v2.random> <20080116124256.44033d48@bree.surriel.com> <478E4356.7030303@qumranet.com> <20080117162302.GI7170@v2.random> <478F9C9C.7070500@qumranet.com> <20080117193252.GC24131@v2.random> <20080121125204.GJ6970@v2.random> <1201030127.6341.39.camel@lappy> <20080122203125.GC15848@v2.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Izik Eidus , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Avi Kivity , clameter@sgi.com, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, holt@sgi.com, steiner@sgi.com, Andrew Morton , Nick Piggin , Benjamin Herrenschmidt List-ID: On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Then I will have to update KVM so that it will free the kvm structure > after waiting a quiescent point to avoid kernel crashing memory > corruption after applying your changes to the mmu notifier. It may not be suitable (I've not looked into your needs), but consider SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU: it might give you the easiest way to do that. Hugh -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org