On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 17:37, Ashwin Rao wrote:

I want to copy a page from one physical location to
another (taking the appr. locks). To keep the
operation of copying and updation of all ptes and
caches atomic one way proposed by my team members was
to sleep the processes accessing the page.

How do you make sure that no more processes begin to access the page
while you're doing your work?

BTW, look at the swap code :)

-- Dave

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