Re: [PATCH V1 1/2] docs/mm: explain when and why rmap locks need to be taken during mremap()

From: Harry Yoo
Date: Wed Aug 27 2025 - 03:20:58 EST


On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 10:58:58AM +0100, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 06:48:41PM +0900, Harry Yoo wrote:
> > > Yeah sorry Jon on latter bit, I did mean to get to that but workload
> > > been... well you can see on lore :P
> > >
> > > I have a real backlog even more than usual right now too due to daring to take a
> > > day off on a national holiday here in the UK :))
> > >
> > > Harry - more than happy for you to do the above as part of this series or
> > > separately, will sling you some tags accordingly.
> >
> > Okay, I'll do as a part of the series (process_addrs.rst and memory-model.rst).
>
> Can you please though make sure the formatting is all good? That doc really
> needs the function names to stand out, so that's key.
>
> I _think_ Jon fixed it so that should work fine but do check first!

vma_start_write() works well, but it doens't process
anon_vma_[try]lock_read() properly. (only characters after [try] stand out)

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Cheers,
Harry / Hyeonggon