On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 09:15 +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 04:57:34PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote: > > Take all the locks for all the anon_vmas in anon_vma_lock, this properly > > excludes migration and the transparent hugepage code from VMA changes done > > by mmap/munmap/mprotect/expand_stack/etc... > > > > In vma_adjust(), what prevents something like rmap_map seeing partial > updates while the following lines execute? > > vma->vm_start = start; > vma->vm_end = end; > vma->vm_pgoff = pgoff; > if (adjust_next) { > next->vm_start += adjust_next << PAGE_SHIFT; > next->vm_pgoff += adjust_next; > } > They would appear to happen outside the lock, even with this patch. The > update happened within the lock in 2.6.33. > > > This part does it. :) ---- @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); } } + anon_vma_lock(vma, &mm->mmap_sem); if (root) { flush_dcache_mmap_lock(mapping); vma_prio_tree_remove(vma, root); @@ -599,6 +600,7 @@ again: remove_next = 1 + (end > next->vm_end); vma_prio_tree_insert(vma, root); flush_dcache_mmap_unlock(mapping); } + anon_vma_unlock(vma); --- But we still need patch about shift_arg_pages. -- Kind regards, Minchan Kim -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>