[RFC v1 1/3] mm/mmu_notifier: Add a new notifier for mapping updates (new pages)
Jason Gunthorpe
jgg at nvidia.com
Mon Jul 24 13:37:34 UTC 2023
On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:36:47PM +1000, Alistair Popple wrote:
> My primary issue with this patch is the notifier is called without the
> PTL while providing a PTE value.
Right, this is no-go. The PTE value must be protected by the PTLs at
all times. We've made enough bugs already by being lazy with this in
the past..
And I don't think the existing sequence locking helps make sense of
this at all..
Jason
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