Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:50:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] my mmu notifiers
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Jack Steiner wrote:

> In general, though, I agree. Most users of mmu_notifiers would likely
> required a mutex or something equivalent.

The skeletons shows how to do most of it using a spinlock and a 
counter.

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