Re: [PATCH 1/3] revoke: misc fixes

From: Pekka J Enberg
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 03:45:33 EST


Hi Nick,

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Could you try something like walk the i_mmap lists to find mms with vmas that
> haven't need revoking, then each time you find one, take a ref on the mm, drop
> i_mmap_lock, take mmap_sem, and walk all its vmas looking for any that
> reference the inode?

Yes, that would work. What I am cooking up now is dropping
->i_mmap_lock, restarting the scan after each revoke_vma() and skipping
vmas that are VM_REVOKED.

Pekka
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