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SubjectRe: [v4 PATCH] mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct
On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:05:55AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
>
> Yes, looks good to me. As mentioned in other emails prctl_set_mm_map
> really deserves a comment explaining why we are doing the down_read
>
> What about something like the following?
> "
> arg_lock protects concurent updates but we still need mmap_sem for read
> to exclude races with do_brk.
> "
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>

Yes, thanks! Andrew, could you slightly update the changelog please?

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