Re: [RFC][-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v4)

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi,

On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  @@ -227,8 +227,9 @@ struct mm_struct {
>         /* aio bits */
>         rwlock_t                ioctx_list_lock;
>         struct kioctx           *ioctx_list;
>  -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
>  -       struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
>  +#ifdef CONFIG_MM_OWNER
>  +       struct task_struct *owner;      /* The thread group leader that */
>  +                                       /* owns the mm_struct.          */
>   #endif

Yes, please. This is useful for the revokeat() patches as well. I
currently need a big ugly loop to scan each task so I can break COW of
private pages.
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