Re: [PATCH 11/12] mm: make userland page table freeing RCU-safe

Kiryl Shutsemau <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded
Message-ID <apbSaL0YaQqtO9XB__18478.0867815547$1788269646$gmane$org@thinkstation>
On Tue, Sep 01, 2026 at 12:01:31PM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> With this change in place the kernel policy is now that all page tables are

s/all/userspace/ as subject implies?

BTW, what is your take on kernel page tables? Do we want the same policy
there. pagetable_free_kernel() is not RCU-safe as it is.

> freed after an RCU grace period, and thus it is now safe to unconditionally
> perform page table walks under RCU, safe in the knowledge that page tables
> will not be freed underneath the walker.

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