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Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 09:41:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Mon, 3 May 2010, Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> Both the page migration code and the transparent hugepage patches expect
> 100% reliable rmap lookups and use page_lock_anon_vma(page) to prevent
> races with mmap, munmap, expand_stack, etc.

Pretty much same comments as for the other one. Why are we pandering to 
the case that is/should be unusual?

		Linus