Re: sys_exit() and zap_page_range()

[arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)]

In article <20000709103011.A3469@fruits.uzix.org> you wrote:

> In fact, I think it will become obvious soon that iterating through user
> page tables without rescheduling isn't _ever_ a good idea - then both the
> spin_lock and the conditional_reschedule could be moved into for_each_pte
> (well, maybe for_each_pte_user or something) and we'd actually end up
> with readable code for zap_page_range.

And we'll get into that trouble anyway when we allow user pagetables to 
be swapped out to disk as well.... (2.5 or 2.7 issue though)

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven
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