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    Subject[PATCH 00/21] mm: Preemptibility -v6
    This patch-set makes part of the mm a lot more preemptible. It converts
    i_mmap_lock and anon_vma->lock to mutexes and makes mmu_gather fully
    preemptible.

    The main motivation was making mm_take_all_locks() preemptible, since it
    appears people are nesting hundreds of spinlocks there.

    The side-effects are that can finally make mmu_gather preemptible,
    something which lots of people have wanted to do for a long time.

    It also gets us anon_vma refcounting, which seems to result in a nice
    cleanup of the anon_vma lifetime rules wrt KSM and compaction.

    This patch-set is build and boot-tested on x86_64 (a previous version was
    also tested on Dave's Niagra2 machines, and I suppose s390 was too when
    Martin provided the conversion patch for his arch).

    There are no known architectures left unconverted.

    Yanmin ran the -v3 posting through the comprehensive Intel test farm
    and didn't find any regressions.

    ( Not included in this posting are the 4 Sparc64 patches that implement
    gup_fast, those can be applied separately after this series gets
    anywhere. )

    The full series (including the Sparc64 gup_fast bits) also available in -git
    form from (against Linus' tree as of about an hour ago):

    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-mmu_preempt.git

    Linus seems to want this to get some serious review and be pushed through
    Andrew (well, anybody but me actually, but since Andrew is mm master...)

    Ben, Thomas, Andrew, can I trick you guys into looking at this stuff?




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