Re: [PATCH] allow vma merging with mlock et. al.

[Hugh Dickins]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> Successive mlock/munlock calls can leave fragmented vmas because they can
> be split but not merged.  Give mlock et. al. full vma merging support.
> While we're at it, move *pprev assignment above first split_vma in
> mprotect_fixup to keep it in step with mlock_fixup (which for mlockall
> ignores errors yet still needs a valid prev pointer).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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