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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mmu notifiers #v8
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:01:22AM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Mar 2008, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> > I'm still not completely happy with this. I had a very quick look
> > at the GRU driver, but I don't see why it can't be implemented
> > more like the regular TLB model, and have TLB insertions depend on
> > the linux pte, and do invalidates _after_ restricting permissions
> > to the pte.
> >
> > Ie. I'd still like to get rid of invalidate_range_begin, and get
> > rid of invalidate calls from places where permissions are relaxed.
>
> Isnt this more a job for paravirt ops if it is so tightly bound to page
> tables? Are we not adding another similar API?

Um, it's bound to the *Linux page tables*, yes. And I have no idea why
you would use the paravirt ops for this.




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