From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
To: marcelo@conectiva.com.br
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: Patch(?): linux-2.4.3-pre6/mm/vmalloc.c could return with init_mm.page_table_lock held
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 03:35:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200103231135.DAA08060@baldur.yggdrasil.com> (raw)
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:
>There is no need to hold mm->page_table_lock for vmalloced memory.
I don't know if it makes a difference, but I should clarify
that mm == &init_mm throughout this code, not ¤t->mm.
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2001-03-23 11:35 Adam J. Richter [this message]
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2001-03-23 10:31 Adam J. Richter
2001-03-23 9:35 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-03-23 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-23 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
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