Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:52:00 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: anon_vma RFC2 |
| |
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > linus-unshare-mremap guarantees that a certain physical page will be > only at a certain virtual address in every mm, so prio_tree taking pgoff > into account isn't needed there, find_vma is more than enough.
Yes. However, I'd at least personally hope that we don't even need the find_vma() all the time.
When removing a page using the reverse mapping, there really is very little reason to even look up the vma, although right now the "flush_tlb_page()" interface is done for vma only so we'd need to change that or at least add a "flush_tlb_page_mm(mm, virt)" flusher (and if any architecture wants to look up the vma, they could do so).
It would be silly to look up the vma if we don't actually need it, and I don't think we do. It's likely faster to just look up the page tables directly than to even worry about anything else.
But find_vma() certainly would be sufficient.
Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |