Re: /proc/<n>/maps growing...

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Aug 06 2001 - 11:12:28 EST

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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli writes:
> > Can somebody see a problem with this design?
>
> As someone who was involved when the merge_segments stuff got tossed
> by Linus, the reason was that the locking is utterly atrocious.

Mmmm, don't we ONLY need to hold both the mm->mmap_sem for
write access and the mm->page_table_lock ?

... which we are already holding at that point.

regards,

Rik

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