Re: mmu notifier calls in apply_to_page_range()

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Fri Jul 09 2010 - 13:42:03 EST


On 07/09/2010 10:36 AM, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> I'm not opposed to removing it, I've been wondering if it made any
> sense in the first place but then there was no point not to add
> it. Just calling apply_to_page_range in non blocking context doesn't
> look so good.
>

That's a good point. It should be safe if the pagetable is already
fully populated; I should double-check that's true in our case.

J

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