Re: [PATCH v3] prctl: avoid using mmap_sem for exe_file serialization

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Wed Mar 25 2015 - 08:50:44 EST


On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 14:08 +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

> If this is preparation for future rework of mmap_sem maybe we could
> postpone committing this patch.

Personally, I think this patch is fine to commit for v4.1, along with
your rcu one, regardless of my mmap_sem work (which is still a wip).
Furthermore we've already got all the exe_file users updated now in
next, so I'd like to wrap this exe_file thing up if nobody has any
objections.

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