Re: [PATCH v2 07/20] mm, hugetlb: unify region structure handling

[Joonsoo Kim]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 03:27:38PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > Currently, to track a reserved and allocated region, we use two different
> > ways for MAP_SHARED and MAP_PRIVATE. For MAP_SHARED, we use
> > address_mapping's private_list and, for MAP_PRIVATE, we use a resv_map.
> > Now, we are preparing to change a coarse grained lock which protect
> > a region structure to fine grained lock, and this difference hinder it.
> > So, before changing it, unify region structure handling.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx>
> 
> As mentioned earlier kref_put is confusing because we always have
> reference count == 1 , otherwise

Okay. In that case, I will use release function directly.

> 
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!
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