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"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>  As long as we make sure the process doesn't run during the move, I don't
>  see why it'd be a problem. But I am less than convinced that rmap will
>  lead us back from the PTE page to the mm, at least w/o modification.

ptep_to_mm() at your service.