On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Stephen Wilson <wilsons@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Morally, the question of whether an address lies in a gate vma should be asked > with respect to an mm, not a particular task. > > Practically, dropping the dependency on task_struct will help make current and > future operations on mm's more flexible and convenient. In particular, it > allows some code paths to avoid the need to hold task_lock. Reviewed-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> May I suggest ia32_compat instead of just compat for the flag name ? -- Michel "Walken" Lespinasse A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html