Re: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 15:14:58 EST


On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 13:56 -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > mmap_sem is a nasty lock, handlings lots of different things.
>
> That is why I think that the accessors are a good first step.

They're not, they're daft, they operate on a global resource mm_struct,
that's the whole problem, giving it a different name isn't going to
solve anything.

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