From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>,
steiner@sgi.com, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Izik Eidus <izike@qumranet.com>,
Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@yahoo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
general@lists.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: [ofa-general] Re: [patch 1/9] EMM Notifier: The notifier calls
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:54:52 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0804021453350.31247@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080402215334.GT19189@duo.random>
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > Hmmm... Okay that is one solution that would just require a BUG_ON in the
> > registration methods.
>
> Perhaps you didn't notice that this solution can't work if you call
> range_begin/end not in the "current" context and try_to_unmap_cluster
> does exactly that for both my patchset and yours. Missing an _end is
> ok, missing a _begin is never ok.
If you look at the patch you will see a requirement of holding a
writelock on mmap_sem which will keep out get_user_pages().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-02 21:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-01 20:55 [ofa-general] [patch 0/9] [RFC] EMM Notifier V2 Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 1/9] EMM Notifier: The notifier calls Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 6:49 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 10:59 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-02 11:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 14:26 ` Robin Holt
2008-04-02 17:59 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 19:03 ` [ofa-general] EMM: Fixup return value handling of emm_notify() Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 21:25 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:33 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 10:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-03 15:00 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-03 19:14 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 21:05 ` [ofa-general] EMM: Require single threadedness for registration Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:01 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 22:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:17 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 22:41 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 1:24 ` EMM: disable other notifiers before register and unregister Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 10:40 ` [ofa-general] " Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-03 15:29 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-03 19:20 ` [ofa-general] " Christoph Lameter
2008-04-03 20:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-04 12:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-04 20:20 ` [ofa-general] [PATCH] mmu notifier #v11 Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-04 22:06 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-05 0:23 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-07 5:45 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-07 6:02 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:53 ` [ofa-general] Re: [patch 1/9] EMM Notifier: The notifier calls Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:54 ` Christoph Lameter [this message]
2008-04-02 22:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 23:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [ofa-general] [patch 2/9] Move tlb flushing into free_pgtables Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [ofa-general] [patch 3/9] Convert i_mmap_lock to i_mmap_sem Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 4/9] Remove tlb pointer from the parameters of unmap vmas Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 5/9] Convert anon_vma lock to rw_sem and refcount Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 18:15 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 21:56 ` [ofa-general] " Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-02 21:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2008-04-02 22:12 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 6/9] This patch exports zap_page_range as it is needed by XPMEM Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 7/9] Locking rules for taking multiple mmap_sem locks Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 8/9] XPMEM: The device driver Christoph Lameter
2008-04-01 20:55 ` [patch 9/9] XPMEM: Simple example Christoph Lameter
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