Sorry for not having completely answered to this. I initially thought stop_machine could work when you mentioned it, but I don't think it can even removing xpmem block-inside-mmu-notifier-method requirements.
For stop_machine to solve this (besides being slower and potentially not more safe as running stop_machine in a loop isn't nice), we'd need to prevent preemption in between invalidate_range_start/end. I think there are two ways: 1) add global lock around mm_lock to remove the sorting 2) remove invalidate_range_start/end, nuke mm_lock as consequence of it, and replace all three with invalidate_pages issued inside the PT lock, one invalidation for each 512 pte_t modified, so serialization against get_user_pages becomes trivial but this will be not ok at all for SGI as it increases a lot their invalidation frequency For KVM both ways are almost the same. I'll implement 1 now then we'll see... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
