linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv5 16/28] mm, thp: remove compound

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Message-ID: <20150430115828.GB15874@node.dhcp.inet.fi>
Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:58:28 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.org>,
	Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@...jp.nec.com>,
	Steve Capper <steve.capper@...aro.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 16/28] mm, thp: remove compound_lock

On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:11:08PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > We are going to use migration entries to stabilize page counts. It means
> 
> By "stabilize" do you mean "protect" from concurrent access? I've seen
> that you use the same term in seemingly the same sense several times (at
> least in patches 15, 16, 23, 24 and 28).

Here it's protect from concurrent change of page's ->_count or
->_mapcount.

In some context I could you "stabilize" as "protect from concurrent
split".
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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