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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)
To: Philipp Rumpf <prumpf@uzix.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: sys_exit() and zap_page_range()
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:42:09 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m13BL5l-000OVtC@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3965EC8E.5950B758@uow.edu.au> <20000709103011.A3469@fruits.uzix.org>

In article <20000709103011.A3469@fruits.uzix.org> you wrote:

> In fact, I think it will become obvious soon that iterating through user
> page tables without rescheduling isn't _ever_ a good idea - then both the
> spin_lock and the conditional_reschedule could be moved into for_each_pte
> (well, maybe for_each_pte_user or something) and we'd actually end up
> with readable code for zap_page_range.

And we'll get into that trouble anyway when we allow user pagetables to 
be swapped out to disk as well.... (2.5 or 2.7 issue though)

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-07-09 17:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-07-07 14:43 Andrew Morton
2000-07-07 16:42 ` Manfred Spraul
2000-07-09 17:30 ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-07-09 17:42   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2000-07-09 23:54   ` Andrew Morton
2000-07-10  9:53     ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-07-10 15:36       ` Andrew Morton
2000-07-10 17:34         ` Philipp Rumpf
2000-07-11  8:39 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-11 11:24   ` Andrew Morton
2000-07-11 13:35     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-07-11 15:23       ` Richard Guenther

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