| Date | Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:13:31 -0800 | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 08/41] mm: introduce CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK |
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On Mon, 09 Jan 2023, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote:
>This configuration variable will be used to build the support for VMA >locking during page fault handling. > >This is enabled by default on supported architectures with SMP and MMU >set. > >The architecture support is needed since the page fault handler is called >from the architecture's page faulting code which needs modifications to >handle faults under VMA lock.
I don't think that per-vma locking should be something that is user-configurable. It should just be depdendant on the arch. So maybe just remove CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK?
Thanks, Davidlohr
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