On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > Good catch! This was missing also in my #v5 (KVM doesn't need that > because the only possible cows on sptes can be generated by ksm, but > it would have been a problem for GRU). The more I think about it, the
How do you think the GRU should know when to drop the refcount? There is no page table and thus no way of tracking that a refcount was taken. Without the refcount you cannot defer the freeing of the page. So shootdown on invalidate_range_begin and lock out until invalidate_range_end seems to be the only workable solution. BTW what do you think about adding a flag parameter to the invalidate calls that allows shooting down writable ptes only? That could be useful for COW and page_mkclean. So #define MMU_ATOMIC 1 #define MMU_WRITABLE 2 insted of the atomic parameter? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
