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Date:   Sat, 9 May 2020 19:54:48 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Sat, May 09, 2020 at 11:25:16AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Right; it's just that the moment you do trigger it, it'll iterate that
> pgd_list and that is potentially huge. Then again, that's not a new
> problem.
> 
> I suppose we can deal with it if/when it becomes an actual problem.
> 
> I had a quick look and I think it might be possible to make it an RCU
> managed list. We'd have to remove the pgd_list entry in
> put_task_struct_rcu_user(). Then we can play games in sync_global_*()
> and use RCU iteration. New tasks (which can be missed in the RCU
> iteration) will already have a full clone of the PGD anyway.

Right, it should not be that difficult to rcu-protect the pgd-list, but
we can try that when it actually becomes a problem.


	Joerg