Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix migration races in rmap_walk() V2

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Wed Apr 28 2010 - 09:23:52 EST


On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 09:13:45AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> Doing some check in move_ptes() after vma_adjust() is not safe.
> IOW, when vma's information and information in page-table is incosistent...objrmap
> is broken and migartion will cause panic.
>
> Then...I think there are 2 ways.
> 1. use seqcounter in "mm_struct" as previous patch and lock it at mremap.
> or
> 2. get_user_pages_fast() when do remap.

3 take the anon_vma->lock
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