03 May, 2007

1 commit

• d6dd61c83   [PATCH] x86: PARAVIRT: add hooks to intercept mm creation and destruction ... Browse Code »

  Add hooks to allow a paravirt implementation to track the lifetime of
  an mm. Paravirtualization requires three hooks, but only two are
  needed in common code. They are:

  arch_dup_mmap, which is called when a new mmap is created at fork

  arch_exit_mmap, which is called when the last process reference to an
  mm is dropped, which typically happens on exit and exec.

  The third hook is activate_mm, which is called from the arch-specific
  activate_mm() macro/function, and so doesn't need stub versions for
  other architectures. It's called when an mm is first used.

  Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
  Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
  Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
  Cc: James Bottomley
  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

  Jeremy Fitzhardinge

  2007-05-03 01:27:14 +0800