Re: [PATCH] mm->rss is modified without page_table_lock held

From: Mark Hahn (hahn@coffee.psychology.mcmaster.ca)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 15:36:35 EST

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> The following patch moves the page_table_lock in mm/* to cover the
> modification of mm->rss in 240-test12-pre7. It was inspired by a

can't we just change rss to count pages?
or are we worried about rss's over ~16 TB?

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