On Sun, 3 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:58:40PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Ok. Andrea wanted the same because then he can void the begin callouts. > > Exactly. I hope the page-pin will avoid me having to serialize the KVM > page fault against the start/end critical section. > > BTW, I wonder if the start/end critical section API is intended to > forbid scheduling inside it. In short I wonder if GRU can is allowed > to take a spinlock in _range_start as last thing before returning, and > to release that same spinlock in _range_end as first thing, and not to > be forced to use a mutex.
_begin/end encloses code that may sleep and _begin/_end itself may sleep. So a semaphore may work but not a spinlock. -- 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/
