Re: missing madvise functionality

[Ulrich Drepper]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> Why do you need a lock for that? I don't see any problem with
> two threads doing that in parallel. The kernel would
> serialize it internally and one would fail, but that shouldn't
> be a problem. 

There is no lock at all at userlevel.  I'm talking about locks in the
kernel.

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