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    SubjectRe: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates.
    > The existing locking APIs are all hiding lock details at various levels.
    > We have various specific APIs for specialized locks already Page locking
    > etc.
    >
    > How can we make progress on this if we cannot look at the mmap_sem

    The point was to really make progress on vma locking we need new
    semantics (finer grained range locking) that cannot be provided by a
    simple wrapper.

    -Andi
    --
    ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.


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