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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:55:31 +1000 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org> To: Thomas Hellström <thomas@...gstengraphics.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch 3/3] mm: fault handler to replace nopage and populate > Still, even with NOPAGE_REFAULT or the equivalent with the new fault() code, > in the case we need to take this route, (and it looks like we won't have > to), > I guess we still need to restart from find_vma() in the fault()/nopage() > handler to make sure the VMA is still present. The object mutex need to > be dropped as well to avoid deadlocks. Sounds complicated. But as we said, it should be enough to do the flag change with the object mutex held as long as it's after unmap_mapped_ranges() Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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