Re: [PATCH 1/2] Revert"hugetlb: avoid taking i_mmap_mutex in unmap_single_vma() for hugetlb"

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:45:04 +0530
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > Unless Aneesh has another reason for the patch, it should be reverted
> > to preserve hugetlb page sharing locking.
> >
> 
> I guess we want to take this patch as a revert patch rather than
> dropping the one in -mm. That would help in documenting the i_mmap_mutex
> locking details in commit message. Or may be we should add necessary
> comments around the locking ?

Code comments would be better if possible - we shouldn't force people to
dig around in git history to understand small code snippets.
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