Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762838AbYBALEy (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:04:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762215AbYBALEg (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:04:36 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:49240 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762178AbYBALEe (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Feb 2008 06:04:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 05:04:32 -0600 From: Robin Holt To: Christoph Lameter , Jack Steiner Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Robin Holt , Avi Kivity , Izik Eidus , kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Peter Zijlstra , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, daniel.blueman@quadrics.com Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] mmu_notifier: Core code Message-ID: <20080201110432.GL26420@sgi.com> References: <20080201050439.009441434@sgi.com> <20080201050623.112641539@sgi.com> <20080201105516.GK26420@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080201105516.GK26420@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 16 On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 04:55:16AM -0600, Robin Holt wrote: > OK. Now that release has been moved, I think I agree with you that the > down_write(mmap_sem) can be used as our lock again and still work for > Jack. I would like a ruling from Jack as well. Ignore this, I was in the wrong work area. I am sorry for adding to the confusion. This version has no locking requirement outside the driver itself. Sorry, Robin -- 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/