Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Apr 2019 16:43:57 -0700 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: change locked_vm's type from unsigned long to atomic64_t |
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On Tue, 02 Apr 2019, Andrew Morton wrote:
>Also, we didn't remove any down_write(mmap_sem)s from core code so I'm >thinking that the benefit of removing a few mmap_sem-takings from a few >obscure drivers (sorry ;)) is pretty small.
afaik porting the remaining incorrect users of locked_vm to pinned_vm was the next step before this one, which made converting locked_vm to atomic hardly worth it. Daniel?
Thanks, Davidlohr
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