From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:45:22 -0800
> On Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:36:02 -0800
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if activate_mm() is the right thing to be using in
> > > use_mm(); shouldn't this be switch_mm()?
> > >
> > > On normal x86, they're synonymous, but for the Xen patches I'm adding a
> > > hook which assumes that activate_mm is only used the first time a new mm
> > > is used after creation (I have another hook for dealing with dup_mm). I
> > > think this use of activate_mm() is the only place where it could be used
> > > a second time on an mm.
> > >
> > > From a quick look at the other architectures I think this is OK (most
> > > simply implement one in terms of the other), but some are doing some
> > > subtly different stuff between the two.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > J
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Er, lets try that again:
> >
> > diff -r 455b71ed4525 fs/aio.c
> > --- a/fs/aio.c Wed Dec 06 13:16:42 2006 -0800
> > +++ b/fs/aio.c Wed Dec 06 17:17:43 2006 -0800
> > @@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ static void use_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > * Note that on UML this *requires* PF_BORROWED_MM to be set, otherwise
> > * it won't work. Update it accordingly if you change it here
> > */
> > - activate_mm(active_mm, mm);
> > + switch_mm(active_mm, mm, tsk);
> > task_unlock(tsk);
> >
> > mmdrop(active_mm);
>
> That to me sounds like a reasonable description of the difference between
> activate_mm() and switch_mm(). And the change appears reasonable as well.
>
> But it is a change which the architecture maintainers would need to have a
> think about, please.
This looks absolutely correct to me.
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