Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Take all anon_vma locks in anon_vma_lock

From: Andrea Arcangeli
Date: Mon May 03 2010 - 13:03:27 EST


On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 06:55:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> This does leave me worrying about concurrent faults poking at
> vma->vm_end without synchronization.

I didn't check this patch in detail yet. I agree it can be removed and
I think it can be safely replaced with the page_table_lock.
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