Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 15 May 2008 10:33:57 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Christoph Lameter <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08 of 11] anon-vma-rwsem | |
On Thu, 15 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Oh, I get that confused because of the mixed up naming conventions
> there: unmap_page_range should actually be called zap_page_range. But
> at any rate, yes we can easily zap pagetables without holding mmap_sem.
How is that synchronized with code that walks the same pagetable. These
walks may not hold mmap_sem either. I would expect that one could only
remove a portion of the pagetable where we have some sort of guarantee
that no accesses occur. So the removal of the vma prior ensures that?
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