* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:23 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > xen_mm_pin_all()/unpin_all() are used to implement full guest instance
> > suspend/restore. It's a stop-all method that needs to iterate through
> > all allocated pgds in the system to fix them up for Xen's use.
>
> And _this_ is why I'd reall ylike that "for_each_mm()" helper.
>
> Yeah, yeah, maybe it would require syntax like
>
> for_each_mm (tsk, mm) {
> ...
> } end_for_each_mm(mm);
>
> to do variable allocation things or cleanups (ie "end_for_each_mm()" might drop
> the task lock etc), but wouldn't that still be better than this complex
> boilerplate thing?
Yeah, agreed absolutely.
Thanks,
Ingo
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