[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 0 of 9] mmu notifier #v12

Avi Kivity avi at qumranet.com
Tue Apr 8 14:46:49 PDT 2008


Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Note that mmu_notifier_unregister may also fail with -EINTR if there are
> signal pending or the system runs out of vmalloc space or physical memory,
> only exit_mmap guarantees that any kernel module can be unloaded in presence
> of an oom condition.
>
>   

That's unusual.  What happens to the notifier?  Suppose I destroy a vm 
without exiting the process, what happens if it fires?

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