Re: locking question: do_mmap(), do_munmap()

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Sat, 9 Oct 1999 18:01:27 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Alexander Viro wrote:

>do_munmap() doesn't need the big lock. do_mmap() callers should grab

Look the swapout path. Without the big kernel lock you'll free vmas under
swap_out().

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/andrea/kernel-patches/pending-2.3.x/munmap-lock-1

Andrea

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