Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: disable CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK until its fixed

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 13:33:26 -0700 Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was hoping we could re-enable VMA locks in 6.4 once we get more
> confirmations that the problem is gone. Is that not possible once the
> BROKEN dependency is merged?

I think "no".  By doing this we're effectively backporting a minor
performance optimization, which isn't a thing we'd normally do.