Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix migration races in rmap_walk() V3

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Mon May 03 2010 - 19:42:17 EST


On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 05:33:01PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 03:51:10PM +0200, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:28:53PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > > Subject: adapt mprotect to anon_vma chain semantics
> > >
> > > From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > wait_split_huge_page interface changed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> > > @@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ int change_huge_pmd(struct vm_area_struc
> > > if (likely(pmd_trans_huge(*pmd))) {
> > > if (unlikely(pmd_trans_splitting(*pmd))) {
> > > spin_unlock(&mm->page_table_lock);
> > > - wait_split_huge_page(vma->anon_vma, pmd);
> > > + wait_split_huge_page(mm, pmd);
> >
> > That makes mprotect-vma-arg obsolete, I guess.
>
> Well it's needed for flush_tlb_range.

I must have been blind, sorry for the noise.

> In mincore_huge_pmd probably we could pass vma->vm_mm instead of
> vma (as there is not flush_tlb_range), I can change it if you prefer.

Although not strictly required, it's probably nicer to keep the
function signatures in this code alike. So everything fine with
me as it stands :)

Hannes
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