2014-01-07 02:38:01

by Davidlohr Bueso

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/14] mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling

On Wed, 2013-12-18 at 15:53 +0900, Joonsoo Kim wrote:
> Currently, to track a reserved and allocated region, we use two different
> ways for MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE. For MAP_SHARED, we use
> address_mapping's private_list and, for MAP_PRIVATE, we use a resv_map.
> Now, we are preparing to change a coarse grained lock which protect
> a region structure to fine grained lock, and this difference hinder it.
> So, before changing it, unify region structure handling.
>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>