Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:01:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>,
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       steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
       daniel.blueman@quadrics.com
Subject: Re: [patch 5/6] mmu_notifier: Support for drivers with revers maps
 (f.e. for XPmem)
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 02:43:41PM -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > Nope. unmap_mapping_range is already handled by the range callbacks.
> 
> But they're called with atomic=1 on anything but anonymous memory. I
> understood Andrew asked to remove the atomic param and to allow
> sleeping for all kind of vmas. I also understood certain XPMEM
> customers asked to use XPMEM on something more than anonymous memory.

Yes but the patch that is discussed here does not handle that situation.
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