Re: RFC: reviving mlock isolation dead code

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On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, in fact, is anything required beyond Peter's original simple patch?

I initially thought there would be a problem with breaking COW on anon
pages (think of fork() + mlock() ), but then I realized these won't
show up in VM_SHARED vmas, so Peter's patch seems fine.

> Added Ccs of those most likely to agree or disagree with us.

I forgot to add Arjan and Andrea in my proposal ('Avoid dirtying pages
during mlock'). Let's move the discussion there.

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.

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