Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On Tue, 2014-07-29 at 12:25 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> We want to make sure for usage like below we don't reorder the load.
>>
>> if (pmd_trans_huge(*pmdp)){
>>
>> get_hpte_slot_array(pmdp)
>> }
>
> Shouldn't we also make sure that we don't have lock set ? (In case it's
> in the middle of being updated).
The reace against withdraw is not a real problem. We use
get_hpte_slot_array in huge page invalidate and hash page. In the first
case we are holding pmd_trans_huge_lock and in the later we have the
_PAGE_BUSY check.
-aneesh
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