On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Also note, EMM isn't using the clean hlist_del, it's implementing list > by hand (with zero runtime gain) so all the debugging may not be > existent in EMM, so if it's really a mm_lock race, and it only > triggers with mmu notifiers and not with EMM, it doesn't necessarily > mean EMM is bug free. If you've a full stack trace it would greatly > help to verify what is mangling over the list when the oops triggers.
EMM was/is using a single linked list which allows atomic updates. Looked cleaner to me since doubly linked list must update two pointers. I have not seen docs on the locking so not sure why you use rcu operations here? Isnt the requirement to have either rmap locks or mmap_sem held enough to guarantee the consistency of the doubly linked list? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
