Re: [PATCH v3 01/14] mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling
From: David Gibson
Date: Sat Dec 21 2013 - 04:09:18 EST
On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 03:53:47PM +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Currently, to track a reserved and allocated region, we use two different
> ways for MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE. For MAP_SHARED, we use
> address_mapping's private_list and, for MAP_PRIVATE, we use a resv_map.
> Now, we are preparing to change a coarse grained lock which protect
> a region structure to fine grained lock, and this difference hinder it.
> So, before changing it, unify region structure handling.
>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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