Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:43:21 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates. |
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> 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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