Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] mm: Make per-VMA locks available universally
From: Jann Horn
Date: Mon Aug 03 2026 - 15:35:43 EST
On Sun, Aug 2, 2026 at 11:55 PM Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The per-VMA locks have been around for several years. They've had some
> bugs worked out of them and have seen quite wide use. However, they
> are still only available when architectures explicitly enable them.
> Remove the conditional compilation around the per-VMA locks, making
> them available on all architectures and configs.
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
I've grepped around in arch-specific code in the architectures that
weren't already opted in to look for stuff that takes the mmap lock in
write mode and manually mutates VMAs, and couldn't find anything, so I
think this is correct.