Re: [PATCH 2/2] mm,migration: Fix race between shift_arg_pages andrmap_walk by guaranteeing rmap_walk finds PTEs created within the temporarystack

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 9 May 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> So I never disliked that patch. I'm perfectly happy with a "don't migrate 
> these pages at all, because they are in a half-way state in the middle of 
> execve stack magic".

Btw, I also think that Mel's patch could be made a lot _less_ magic by 
just marking that initial stack vma with a VM_STACK_INCOMPLETE_SETUP bit, 
instead of doing that "maybe_stack" thing. We could easily make that 
initial vma setup very explicit indeed, and then just clear that bit when 
we've moved the stack to its final position.

		Linus
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