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Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:46:49 +0300
From: Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
CC: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@...oo.com>,
Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
general@...ts.openfabrics.org, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12
Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Note that mmu_notifier_unregister may also fail with -EINTR if there are
> signal pending or the system runs out of vmalloc space or physical memory,
> only exit_mmap guarantees that any kernel module can be unloaded in presence
> of an oom condition.
>
>
That's unusual. What happens to the notifier? Suppose I destroy a vm
without exiting the process, what happens if it fires?
--
Any sufficiently difficult bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
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