when a task exits we can remove all external pts at once. At that point the
extern mmu may also unregister itself from the mmu notifier chain to avoid
future calls.
Note the complications because of RCU. Other processors may not see that the
notifier was unlinked until a quiescent period has passe
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote:
> What is the status of getting invalidate_all adjusted to indicate a need
> to also call _release?
Release is only called if the mmu_notifier is still registered. If you
take it out on invalidate_all then there will be no call to release
(provided you dea
What is the status of getting invalidate_all adjusted to indicate a need
to also call _release?
Thanks,
Robin
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:28:46PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> when a task exits we can remove all external pts at once. At that point the
> extern mmu may also unregister itself fr
when a task exits we can remove all external pts at once. At that point the
extern mmu may also unregister itself from the mmu notifier chain to avoid
future calls.
Note the complications because of RCU. Other processors may not see that the
notifier was unlinked until a quiescent period has passe
