Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756989AbYAYF6S (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:58:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753555AbYAYF6F (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:58:05 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:44085 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752878AbYAYF6E (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:58:04 -0500 Message-Id: <20080125055606.102986685@sgi.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:56:06 -0800 From: Christoph Lameter To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Robin Holt , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus Cc: Nick Piggin , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Peter Zijlstra Cc: steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: daniel.blueman@quadrics.com, Hugh Dickins Subject: [patch 0/4] [RFC] MMU Notifiers V1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1075 Lines: 28 This is a patchset implementing MMU notifier callbacks based on Andrea's earlier work. These are needed if Linux pages are referenced from something else than tracked by the rmaps of the kernel. To do: - Make locking requirements for the callbacks consistent and document them accurately. - Insure that the callbacks are complete - Feedback from uses of the callbacks for KVM, RDMA, XPmem and GRU Andrea's mmu_notifier #4 -> RFC V1 - Merge subsystem rmap based with Linux rmap based approach - Move Linux rmap based notifiers out of macro - Try to account for what locks are held while the notifiers are called. - Develop a patch sequence that separates out the different types of hooks so that it is easier to review their use. - Avoid adding #include to linux/mm_types.h - Integrate RCU logic suggested by Peter. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/