[PATCH v11 01/26] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT

Laurent Dufour ldufour at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue May 22 21:44:48 AEST 2018


On 17/05/2018 19:19, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:00AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> +	 If the speculative page fault fails because of a concurrency is
>>
>> 	                                     because a concurrency is
> 
> While one can use concurrency as a noun, it sounds archaic to me.  I'd
> rather:
> 
> 	If the speculative page fault fails because a concurrent modification
> 	is detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet

Thanks Matthew, I'll do that.

> 
>>> +	 detected or because underlying PMD or PTE tables are not yet
>>> +	 allocating, it is failing its processing and a classic page fault
>>
>> 	 allocated, the speculative page fault fails and a classic page fault
>>
>>> +	 is then tried.
> 



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