Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:20:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> > invalidate_range after populate allows access to memory for which ptes 
> > were zapped and the refcount was released.
> 
> The last refcount is released by the invalidate_range itself.

That is true for your implementation and to address Robin's issues. Jack: 
Is that true for the GRU?

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