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authorBrendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com>2025-02-11 16:00:23 +0300
committerAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>2025-03-17 08:06:12 +0300
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mm/mmu_gather: update comment on RCU freeing
Some recent discussion on LMKL [0] brought up some interesting and useful additional context on RCU-freeing for pagetables. Note down some extra info in here, in particular a) be concrete about the reason why an arch might not have an IPI and b) add the interesting paravirt details. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/20250206044346.3810242-2-riel@surriel.com/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250211-mmugather-comment-v1-1-1ac1e0c765d2@google.com Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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