On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:44 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > Please note, we can't allow a thread to be in the middle of > zap_page_range while mmu_notifier_register runs.
You said yourself that mmu_notifier_register can be as slow as you want ... what about you use stop_machine for it ? I'm not even joking here :-) > vmtruncate takes 1 single lock, the i_mmap_lock of the inode. Not more > than one lock and we've to still take the global-system-wide lock > _before_ this single i_mmap_lock and no other lock at all. Ben. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
