Linux Plumbers Conference 2021

VMA life cycle and MM locking

24 Sept 2021, 07:45

45m

BOF1/Virtual-Room (LPC Virtual)

Birds of a Feather (BoF) BOFs Session

Speaker

Liam Howlett (Oracle)

Description

This is to discuss the idea of limiting the VMAs to growing, reference counting and how locking could be handled for RCU safe VMA lookups.