On 9/30/20 10:30 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > In general though; I think using ->active_mm is a mistake though. That > code should be doing something like: > > > mm = current->mm; > if (!mm) > mm = &init_mm; >
I was hoping that using ->active_mm would give us the *actual* copy of the page tables that's loaded in CR3 for kernel thraeds. But, there are few if any practical advantages of doing that at the moment. Using that ^ is fine with me.
