On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This patch is UNTESTED!
>
> It was also UNATTACHED!
Hmm. And it doesn't work. We deadlock when we free the anon_vma
because the *freeing* path wants to take the anon_vma lock. See that
horrid code in anon_vma_free().
So now we now hold the root over the whole series of frees, and get an
instant deadlock.
We also can happen to free the root anon_vma before we release the
lock in it, which is another slight problem ;)
So the unlink_anon_vmas() case is actually much more complicated than
the clone case.
In other words, just forget that second patch. I'll have to think about it.
Linus
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