On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Hugh Dickins <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Suppress split ptlock on arches which may use one page for multiple page
> > tables. Reconsider what better to do (particularly on ppc64) later on.
>
> But why is that a problem per-se? A few "pagetable pages" will share the
> same lock. Deadlocky when we take two pagetable locks?
Good point, it may not be as disastrous as I was imagining. Certainly
deadlocky in copy_page_range and mremap move at present, but that can
be easily surmounted. However, there is the slab lru issue too: if it's
convenient for an arch to use slab cache, I'd prefer not to make life
difficult for them. I'll come back to this but not tonight.
Hugh
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