Re: [PATCH v11 01/26] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

From: Laurent Dufour
Date: Tue May 22 2018 - 06:50:54 EST


On 17/05/2018 19:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> + If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is
>>
>> because a concurrency is
>
> While one can use concurrency as a noun, it sounds archaic to me. I'd
> rather:
>
> If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification
> is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet

Thanks Matthew, I'll do that.

>
>>> + detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet
>>> + allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault
>>
>> allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault
>>
>>> + is then tried.
>