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Date:   Fri, 14 May 2021 15:16:36 -0400
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
To:     Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, hugetlb: fix resv_huge_pages underflow on UFFDIO_COPY
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On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 10:56:36AM -0700, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> Since this is a shared mapping, can we not have a 'regular' mapping to
> the same range that is uffd registered?  And, that regular mappings could
> fault and race with the uffd copy code?

Yeah we can..  Please ignore the paragraph in the parenthesis.  Sorry.

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Peter Xu