Re: spinlock contention of files->file_lock

[Al Viro]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2013 at 02:41:58PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something obvious ?

Yes.  do_execve_common() starts with unshare_files(); there can be
no other thread capable of modifying that descriptor table.
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