Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH 03 of 11] invalidate_page outside PT lock

[Andrea A. <an...@qu...>]

On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:39:43PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Would it be an idea to merge them into one, so the first patch
> introduces the right conventions directly?

The only reason this isn't merged into one, is that this requires
non obvious (not difficult though) to the core VM code. I wanted to
keep an obviously safe approach for 2.6.26. The other conventions are
only needed by XPMEM and XPMEM can't work without all other patches anyway.