On Sun, 1 Oct 2017, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > up_read(&mm->mmap_sem) in the fault path is a still a complete > no-go, > > NAK Care to elaborate? What about mm/filemap.c:__lock_page_or_retry() then? Why the special handling on mm->mmap_sem with VM_FAULT_RETRY? What are the potential problems with my approach I didn't cover yet? Serious: I'm simply looking for solutions here. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>