linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 001/001] mmu-notifier-core v17

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Message-ID: <20080605165104.GI15502@duo.random>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:51:04 +0200
From:	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Kanoj Sarcar <kanojsarcar@...oo.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Anthony Liguori <aliguori@...ibm.com>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...hat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@...ck.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] mmu-notifier-core v17

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 12:07:52PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> The hlist_del_init_rcu() primitive looks good.
> 
> The rest of the RCU code looks fine assuming that "mn->ops->release()"
> either does call_rcu() to defer actual removal, or that the actual
> removal is deferred until after mmu_notifier_release() returns.

Yes, actual removal is deferred until after mmu_notifier_release()
returns.

> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

Thanks for the review Paul! I should also have added your precious
Acked-by to the 1/3 and 3/3 but the important is the ack by email ;)
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