From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: kernel@tekno-soft.it
Cc: rasmus@jaquet.dk, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm->rss is modified without page_table_lock held
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 07:00:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200012091500.HAA20614@pizda.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001209160215.00c901e0@mail.tekno-soft.it> (message from Roberto Fichera on Sat, 09 Dec 2000 16:07:03 +0100)
In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001209152806.00c8e7b0@mail.tekno-soft.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20001209111347.00c829f0@mail.tekno-soft.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20001209111347.00c829f0@mail.tekno-soft.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20001209152806.00c8e7b0@mail.tekno-soft.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20001209160215.00c901e0@mail.tekno-soft.it>
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 16:07:03 +0100
From: Roberto Fichera <kernel@tekno-soft.it>
8 bits for a spinlock ? What kind of use we have here ?
Sparc32 (like some other older architectures) do not have a
word atomic update instruction, but it does have a byte spinlock.
To conserve space and implement the atomic update properly, we
use a spinlock in the top byte of the word.
All arch except Sparc32 don't have this trick.
This may not be true forever.
Also, this sematic was decided upon many eons ago, changing it a month
before 2.4.0 just to deal with this mm->rss atomicity issue is not
going to happen. The spinlock patch exists, and if nothing better
comes up, we should just use it.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-09 15:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-08 20:29 Rasmus Andersen
2000-12-08 20:36 ` Mark Hahn
2000-12-08 20:58 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 10:25 ` Roberto Fichera
2000-12-09 12:32 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 12:43 ` Rasmus Andersen
2000-12-09 14:42 ` David S. Miller
2000-12-09 22:38 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2000-12-09 14:48 ` Roberto Fichera
2000-12-09 15:00 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2000-12-09 15:07 ` Roberto Fichera
2000-12-09 18:11 ` Roberto Fichera
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