linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 01/15] uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in pagefault

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Message-ID: <20150507114804.GS21418@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 7 May 2015 13:48:04 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	David Hildenbrand <dahi@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	yang.shi@...driver.com, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
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	linux@....linux.org.uk, airlied@...ux.ie, daniel.vetter@...el.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 01/15] uaccess: count pagefault_disable() levels in
 pagefault_disabled

On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 01:40:30PM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I think a separate counter just makes sense, as we are dealing with two
> different concepts and we don't want to lose the preempt_disable =^ NOP
> for !CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Right, let me try and get my head on straight -- I'm so used to
PREEMPT=y being the 'hard' case :-)
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