Re: [patch 1/3] mmu_notifier: Core code

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Thu Jan 31 2008 - 21:39:30 EST


On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robin Holt wrote:

> Jack has repeatedly pointed out needing an unregister outside the
> mmap_sem. I still don't see the benefit to not having the lock in the mm.

I never understood why this would be needed. ->release removes the
mmu_notifier right now.

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