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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] asynchronous page fault.
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On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 09:36 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
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> > The idea is to let the RCU lock span whatever length you need the vma
> > for, the easy way is to simply use PREEMPT_RCU=y for now,
>
> I tried to remove his kind of reference count trick but I can't do that
> without synchronize_rcu() somewhere in unmap code. I don't like that and
> use this refcnt.

Why, because otherwise we can access page tables for an already unmapped
vma? Yeah that is the interesting bit ;-)





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