Re: [PATCH] Alternate futex non-page-pinning and COW fix

[Jamie Lokier]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Take mmap_sem for writing around the modification of vma->vm_flags.
> But hold it for reading across the populate function: it does I/O and is
> slow.

Agreed.  Well spotted.

-- Jamie
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