On Thu, 15 May 2008, Nick Piggin wrote: > Oh, I get that confused because of the mixed up naming conventions > there: unmap_page_range should actually be called zap_page_range. But > at any rate, yes we can easily zap pagetables without holding mmap_sem.
How is that synchronized with code that walks the same pagetable. These walks may not hold mmap_sem either. I would expect that one could only remove a portion of the pagetable where we have some sort of guarantee that no accesses occur. So the removal of the vma prior ensures that? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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