On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:11:08PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote: > On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > We are going to use migration entries to stabilize page counts. It means > > By "stabilize" do you mean "protect" from concurrent access? I've seen > that you use the same term in seemingly the same sense several times (at > least in patches 15, 16, 23, 24 and 28). Here it's protect from concurrent change of page's ->_count or ->_mapcount. In some context I could you "stabilize" as "protect from concurrent split". -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- 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>