On Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:31:33 -0700 > I'm presume I'm the first person to try holding multiple pte locks at > once, so there's no existing locking order for these locks. I'm > always traversing and locking the pagetable in virtual address order > (and this seems like a sane-enough rule for anyone else who wants to > hold multiple pte locks).
I'm not sure that's a valid assumption in light of things like sharing pagetables between processes etc etc.. (granted, that one is out of tree right now but I still hope it'll go in some day:) - 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/