Re: [RFC][-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v3)

[Paul Menage]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:03 PM, YAMAMOTO Takashi
<yamamoto@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  changing mm->owner without notifying controllers makes it difficult to use.
>  can you provide a notification mechanism?
>

Yes, I think that call will need to be in the task_lock() critical
section in which we update mm->owner.

Right now I think the only user that needs to be notified at that
point is Balbir's virtual address limits controller.

Paul
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