Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm/vmalloc: acquire init_mm read lock on huge vmap promotion

[Dev Jain]

On 12/07/26 1:31 pm, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 01:13:12PM +0530, Dev Jain wrote:
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>>> We also define a guard class for mmap_read_trylock() so we can use
>>> cleanup.h to make the scope handling cleaner in the implementation.
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>> Will this cause backport problems, I think this scoped guard thingy is
>> not that old?
> 
> Don't worry about stable issues until after the fact.  Fix things
> properly in Linus's tree first.
> 
> And scoped guard has been backported to many of the LTS branches
> already.

Nice, thanks.


> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h