On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:48:41AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 04:43:31PM +0100, Steve Capper wrote: > > In order to implement fast_get_user_pages we need to ensure that the > > page table walker is protected from page table pages being freed from > > under it. > > > > This patch enables HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE, any page table pages belonging > > to address spaces with multiple users will be call_rcu_sched freed. > > Meaning that disabling interrupts will block the free and protect the > > fast gup page walker. > > > > Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxxxxx> > > I'm happy to take this patch independently of this series. But if the > whole series goes in via some other tree (mm): > > Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Thanks. If patch #1 looks okay to the mm folks, I'm hoping this patch can be merged via the same tree. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
