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SubjectRe: page fault fastpath patch v2: fix race conditions, stats for 8,32 and 512 cpu SMP
On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>>> Something like this?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 11:19:25PM -0400, Rajesh Venkatasubramanian wrote:
>> Yeah, something similar... A small nitpick: page_table_lock
>> nests within i_mmap_lock and anon_lock.
>> do_unmap() also frees page tables first and then removes vmas from
>> i_mmap (and/or) anon_vma list. Is there a reason to preserve
>> this ordering ?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 08:31:27PM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> I don't see a reason to rearrange it. We can just as easily drop and
> reacquire ->page_table_lock.

On closer examination it's not that simple.


-- wli
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