Re: [PATCH v7 0/6] Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2023 at 09:40:57AM +0200, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> I won't lie: all of these locking checks are a bit hard to get and possibly
> even harder to maintain.
> 
> Maybe better mmap unlock sanity checks as spelled out above might help
> improve part of the situation.
> 
> 
> And maybe some comments regarding the placement might help as well ;)

The placement was obvious; we can't call into drivers under the vma
lock.  Not until we've audited all of them.  I haven't yet had the
chance to figure out exactly what is being fixed with this patch ...
give me a few minutes.