linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: make munlock fast when mlock is canceled by sigkill

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Message-Id: <20090825183734.1b2d0559.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:37:34 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk>
Cc:	Hiroaki Wakabayashi <primulaelatior@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>, Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: make munlock fast when mlock is canceled by sigkill

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:03:30 +0100 (BST)
Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@...cali.co.uk> wrote:
> My advice (but I sure hate giving advice before I've tried it myself)
> is to put __mlock_vma_pages_range() back to handling just the mlock
> case, and do your own follow_page() loop in munlock_vma_pages_range().
> 

I have no objections to make use of follow_page().

Thanks,
-Kame

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