Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 14:58:28 +0300
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
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        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>, Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>,
        Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>,
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        Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 16/28] mm, thp: remove compound_lock
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 06:11:08PM +0200, Jerome Marchand wrote:
> On 04/23/2015 11:03 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> > We are going to use migration entries to stabilize page counts. It means
> 
> By "stabilize" do you mean "protect" from concurrent access? I've seen
> that you use the same term in seemingly the same sense several times (at
> least in patches 15, 16, 23, 24 and 28).

Here it's protect from concurrent change of page's ->_count or
->_mapcount.

In some context I could you "stabilize" as "protect from concurrent
split".
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov
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