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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] pagewalk: only split huge pages when necessary
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 11:11:25AM +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
> Before we goto this retry, there is at a cond_resched(). Just to confirm,
> we are depending on mmap_sem to prevent khugepaged promoting this back to
> a hugepage, right? I don't see a problem with that but I want to be
> sure.

Correct, and we depend on that everywhere as wait_split_huge_page has
to run without holding spinlocks.


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