Re: [PATCH v3 01/14] mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Mon Jan 06 2014 - 21:38:06 EST


On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:53 +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Currently, to track a reserved and allocated region, we use two different
> ways for MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE. For MAP_SHARED, we use
> address_mapping's private_list and, for MAP_PRIVATE, we use a resv_map.
> Now, we are preparing to change a coarse grained lock which protect
> a region structure to fine grained lock, and this difference hinder it.
> So, before changing it, unify region structure handling.
>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@xxxxxx>

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