Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/mm: add VMA locks documentation

[Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 10:56:29AM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
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> On 2024/11/5 00:42, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 02, 2024 at 02:45:35AM +0100, Jann Horn wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 7:50 PM Lorenzo Stoakes
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> [...]
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> > > > +
> > > > +Page table locks
> > > > +----------------
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> Many thanks to Lorenzo for documenting page table locks! This is really
> needed. And at a glance, I agree with Jann's additions.

Thanks!

Will be respinning with all comments taken into account relatively soon.

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> > >
> > > (except last-level page tables: khugepaged already deletes those for
> > > file mappings without using the mmap lock at all in
> > > retract_page_tables(), and there is a pending series that will do the
> > > same with page tables in other VMAs too, see
> > > <https://lore.kernel.org/all/cover.1729157502.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/>)
>
> Thanks to Jann for mentioning this series, I just updated it to v2
> recently:
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> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1730360798.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/

Yeah I need to read through a little bit as I was unaware of these paths (mm is
a big and sprawling subsystem more so than one might expect... :)

Could you cc- me on any respin, as at least an interested observer? Thanks!

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> >
> > Ugh wut OK haha. Will look into this.
>
> Thanks!
>

:>)