On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 07:57:02AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 3:29 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > So you forgot to CC Linus, Linus has expressed some dislike for > > preemptible mmu_notifiers in the recent past: > > Indeed. I think we *really* should change that anonvma rwsem into an > rwlock. We had performance numbers that showed it needs to be done. > > The *last* thing we want is to have random callbacks that can block in > this critical region. So now I think making it an rwlock is a good > idea just to make sure that never happens. > > Seriously, the mmu_notifiers were misdesigned to begin with, and much > too deep. We're not screwing up the VM any more because of them. > > Linus So question becomes how to implement process address space mirroring without pinning memory and track cpu page table update knowing that device page table update is unbound can not be atomic from cpu point of view. Cheers, Jérôme -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>