On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 07:42:04PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > I could use any other inode/file/mapping based sleepable lock that is of > higher order than mmap_sem. Can you please let me know if we have > alternatives. Please do not overload unrelated locks for this, but add a specific one. There's two options: (a) add it to the inode (conditionally) (b) use global, hashed locks I think (b) is good enough as adding/removing probes isn't exactly the most critical fast path. -- 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/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>