On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 10:57:33PM +1100, Balbir Singh wrote: [...] > > > + pmd_t pmd; > > > + > > > + new_ptl = pmd_lockptr(mm, new_pmd); > > > Looks like this is largely inspired by move_huge_pmd(), I guess a lot of > the code applies, why not just reuse as much as possible? The same comments > w.r.t mmap_sem helping protect against lock order issues applies as well. I thought about this and when I looked into it, it seemed there are subtle differences that make such sharing not worth it (or not possible). - Joel _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
