Hey... I am amazed at how quickly you came back with a patch for this :) Thanks for looking at it. Unfortunately there is one show-stopper and I have some reservations (pun definitely intended) with your approach:
First, your patch does not pass the libhugetlbfs test 'alloc-instantiate-race' which was written to tickle the the race which the mutex was introduced to solve. Your patch works for shared mappings, but not for the private case. Second, the introduction of another pair of global counters triggers my internal warning system... These global counters are known to cause problems with NUMA and cpusets. Have you considered these interactions? Additionally, the commit/rollback logic you are using closely parallels what we already do with the huge page reservation mechanism. Is there any way you could integrate your stuff into the reservation system to avoid all the duplicated logic? -- Adam Litke - (agl at us.ibm.com) IBM Linux Technology Center - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
