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

[Andi Kleen]

> The existing locking APIs are all hiding lock details at various levels.
> We have various specific APIs for specialized locks already Page locking
> etc.
> 
> How can we make progress on this if we cannot look at the mmap_sem

The point was to really make progress on vma locking we need new
semantics (finer grained range locking) that cannot be provided by a
simple wrapper.

-Andi
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