Re: [PATCH] mm: make munlock fast when mlock is canceled by sigkill

From: Minchan Kim
Date: Tue Aug 25 2009 - 07:46:15 EST


On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:37 PM, KAMEZAWA
Hiroyuki<kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:03:30 +0100 (BST)
> Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My advice (but I sure hate giving advice before I've tried it myself)
>> is to put __mlock_vma_pages_range() back to handling just the mlock
>> case, and do your own follow_page() loop in munlock_vma_pages_range().
>>
>
> I have no objections to make use of follow_page().

Me, too.
We don't need to add new flag although there is simple method like this.

> Thanks,
> -Kame
>
>



--
Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/