Re: lockdep: how to tell it multiple pte locks is OK?

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Mon Oct 08 2007 - 20:21:43 EST


Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> s/implemented/merged/ :)
>
> IN fact shared pagetables are already there for hugepages.
> For small pages it's a patch at this point.
>

Is it kept up to date? Where does it live?

> no I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that I'm worried about the
> locking robustness of your trick in general.
>

Hm, well I won't need to re-pin shared ptes anyway, so I think it's moot.

J
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