Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup
Tom Rini (trini@kernel.crashing.org)
Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:39:47 -0700
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:08:18PM +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Below is a vm cleanup that can be pulled from bk://bcrlbits.bk.net/vm-2.5 .
> > The bulk of the patch is moving the down/up_write on mmap_sem into do_mmap
> > and removing that from all the callers. The patch also includes a fix for
> > do_mmap which caused mapping of the last page in the address space to fail.
>
> Was not that a workaround for CPU bugs?
In generic code, I'd hope not.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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