Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: generalise COW SMC TLB flushing race comment

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On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:11:19PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> I'm not sure if I'm completely missing something here, but AFAIKS the
> reference to the mysterious "COW SMC race" confuses the issue. The original
> changelog and mailing list thread didn't help me either.

Also, I had no idea that SMC meant Self Modifying Code until
you prompted me to go and look up the commit.  I thought it meant
the Japanese corporation.  So this commit is a big improvement.
It's the only place we use the acronym 'SMC' in mm/

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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