Callbacks to remove individual pages if the subsystem has an rmap capability. The pagelock is held but no spinlocks are held. The refcount of the page is elevated so that dropping the refcount in the subsystem will not directly free the page.
The callbacks occur after the Linux rmaps have been walked. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- mm/rmap.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/rmap.c 2008-01-25 14:24:19.000000000 -0800 +++ linux-2.6/mm/rmap.c 2008-01-25 14:24:38.000000000 -0800 @@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/kallsyms.h> +#include <linux/mmu_notifier.h> #include <asm/tlbflush.h> @@ -473,6 +474,8 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page) struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page); if (mapping) { ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page); + if (unlikely(PageExternalRmap(page))) + mmu_rmap_notifier(invalidate_page, page); if (page_test_dirty(page)) { page_clear_dirty(page); ret = 1; @@ -971,6 +974,9 @@ int try_to_unmap(struct page *page, int else ret = try_to_unmap_file(page, migration); + if (unlikely(PageExternalRmap(page))) + mmu_rmap_notifier(invalidate_page, page); + if (!page_mapped(page)) ret = SWAP_SUCCESS; return ret; -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel