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 from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
