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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802161121130.25573@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:22:18 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>,
	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@...oo.com>, steiner@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	daniel.blueman@...drics.com
Subject: Re: [patch 3/6] mmu_notifier: invalidate_page callbacks

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > @@ -287,7 +288,8 @@ static int page_referenced_one(struct pa
> >  	if (vma->vm_flags & VM_LOCKED) {
> >  		referenced++;
> >  		*mapcount = 1;	/* break early from loop */
> > -	} else if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte))
> > +	} else if (ptep_clear_flush_young(vma, address, pte) |
> > +		   mmu_notifier_age_page(mm, address))
> >  		referenced++;
> 
> The "|" is obviously deliberate.  But no explanation is provided telling us
> why we still call the callback if ptep_clear_flush_young() said the page
> was recently referenced.  People who read your code will want to understand
> this.

Andrea?

> >  		flush_cache_page(vma, address, pte_pfn(*pte));
> >  		entry = ptep_clear_flush(vma, address, pte);
> > +		mmu_notifier(invalidate_page, mm, address);
> 
> I just don't see how ths can be done if the callee has another thread in
> the middle of establishing IO against this region of memory. 
> ->invalidate_page() _has_ to be able to block.  Confused.

The page lock is held and that holds off I/O?

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